Re: [Pan-users] Possible bug - need clarification

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

John Wendel wrote:
> Running Pan 0.131.
> 
> I subscribe to several large binary groups that get thousands of 
> messages a day. Sometimes I see the following situation, and I don't 
> know if I should report a bug, so maybe someone could comment.
> 
> Frequently, messages will have missing articles. So I ignore them for a 
> while, and sometimes the missing parts show up. But sometimes they 
> don't . My news provider has really good completion, usually the parts 
> are actually on the server. But repeated attempts to get new headers 
> don't get everything. So, if I delete everything in the group, and 
> reload, the missing articles almost always show up.

Don't know the answer, but I see the same thing.  I blamed it on
news.bellsouth.net, but as long as the parts eventually show up I'm
satisfied.

It's interesting that get new headers won't do the job, but
delete/re-fetch does.

Rinaldi
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