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Re: What to do when Article numbers are unreliable?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: What to do when Article numbers are unreliable? |
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Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:50:10 +0200 |
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Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev+nospam@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru> writes:
> On 9568 day of my life David Kastrup wrote:
>> with my current news provider, it appears like I get one of a bunch of
>> news servers on each connection, and the relation between article
>> numbers and articles is not kept.
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> Use leafnode as proxy server or (better) change provider because
> provider's admins are idiots, and new problems are just waiting...
Probably my analysis was backwards: updating news seems to work pretty
ok (which articles are read or not), but it is pretty impossible to
get a message using its article Id (like with ^ ) unless it has
already been fetched in this session.
So maybe access by article Id is what is borked.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum