On 11/08/2011 01:16 AM, Daniel wrote: > Daniel wrote: >> Daniel wrote: >>> NoOp wrote: ... >>> >>> Sorry, NoOp, I didn't read in the OP's post that they were trying to >>> download all messages for off-line reading. I haven't downloaded >>> messages for off-line reading for quite some time. >>> >>> However, I am now trying to download this group...let you know. >>> >> >> I've just downloaded about 6800 messages, no interruptions or >> whatever.....time to go to bed, I'll look at the file tomorrow and let >> you know if the messages were saved. >> > > Not a problem, before I came online to get my mail, I switched SM > browser to "Off-Line" mode and was able to check-out some of the 6800 > messages from this newsgroup.
You forgot a zero. There are currently 66915 msgs on this server: <http://newsgroupstats.info/reader/news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.seamonkey.html> Well 66,916 now. > > Interestingly, I thought if I downloaded 10% of the messages, it would > be the first (or last) 10%, but this was not the case. I checked the > root/original messages of the first fifty threads or so. First ten were > o.k., eleventh was missing, next half a dozen or so were o.k., then two > not downloaded, then more downloaded. > > Never got the message that you, NoOp, or the OP, have been getting. > Seems to me I *only* got that message (in the past) if I was trying to > look at a message on a server/group which had a policy of expiring all > messages after a fixed time limit. > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
