In <news:[email protected]>,
Mark Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/24/2009 1:07 AM, Daniel wrote:
> > Mark Hansen wrote:
> >> Hmmm, I show 43,739. I guess it depends on how many headers were
> >> downloaded when the group was initially subscribed? I always
> >> download all headers (as I have a connection that makes this easy).
> >
> > Interesting!!
> >
> > I've just set up this new laptop in the past fortnight or so, and
> > for the four groups I check on this server, I downloaded all the
> > headers and this group, now, about six weeks after Marks post, is
> > only showing as 38943 messages!!
>
> Is it because the news server has removed some of the older posts,
> such that if you get a new list today, it will not go back as far as
> the list I downloaded some time ago?
>
> When I view all messages in the group, the first header I see is:
>
> "Welcome to mozilla.support.seamonkey", posted by Dave Miller on
> 1/9/2006.
>
> Interestingly, the first response to that post was from you :-)
The headers and posts go back to the beginning of the group -- none
have expired due to age. As I type this, the most recent article
number is 47325. Article 1 is blank because of a quirk in the Giganews
server in setting up new groups, so Dave's first post is article 2 and
Daniel's reply is article 3.
Some of those slots 47325 are empty, the articles having been removed
from the server, mainly spam. I've just downloaded all the From
headers, and there are 47029 of them. I can't explain Daniel's count
of 38943.
Since this is server trivia and not SeaMonkey support stuff, I'm
crossposting and setting followups to mozilla.general.
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