I had newslink want to download 12,000 messages in one newsgroup a few days ago. I ram smbutil to pack the message board and get it down to 5,000
messages (my limit) and it happened again.

I commented out that newsgroup in newslink.cfg, and now another group is
doing the same thing. I haven't looked at the server yet to see if I can
figure out what's going on, but it's odd that both newslink and the server
have been trouble free for years.

Has anyone seen similar behavior?



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Re: newslink issues
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Feb 21 2019 06:41 am

I had newslink want to download 12,000 messages in one newsgroup a few days ago. I ram smbutil to pack the message board and get it down to 5,000 messages (my limit) and it happened again.

I commented out that newsgroup in newslink.cfg, and now another group is doing the same thing. I haven't looked at the server yet to see if I can

what is your command line for newslink
what is your provider.
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MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

what is your command line for newslink
what is your provider.

I was running the stock command with Synchronet, don't know the command
line. I ran jsexec newslink.js with the command line to reset pointers and
all is well.



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On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 06:12:00 -0800
"Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@VERT> wrote:

MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

what is your command line for newslink
what is your provider.

I was running the stock command with Synchronet, don't know the
command line. I ran jsexec newslink.js with the command line to reset pointers and all is well.

It sounds like maybe your news server has renumbered the articles. Now
that you've reset, it should be fine if that was the issue. You should
be back in sync with the server.

Retro Guy

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Re: Re: newslink issues
By: Retro Guy to All on Mon Feb 25 2019 07:38 am

I was running the stock command with Synchronet, don't know the
command line. I ran jsexec newslink.js with the command line to reset
pointers and all is well.

It sounds like maybe your news server has renumbered the articles. Now that you've reset, it should be fine if that was the issue. You should
be back in sync with the server.

Are you replying with a news reader? I noticed your reply was addressed to "All" rather than the person you were quoting, so they might not see your reply in a new to-me message scan.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: newslink issues
By: Retro Guy to All on Mon Feb 25 2019 07:38 am

It sounds like maybe your news server has renumbered the articles. Now
that you've reset, it should be fine if that was the issue. You should
be back in sync with the server.

That's the most likely explanation, and all is well now. Thanks for the input.

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Re: Re: newslink issues
By: Nightfox to Retro Guy on Mon Feb 25 2019 01:05 pm

Are you replying with a news reader? I noticed your reply was addressed to "All" rather than the person you were quoting, so they might not see your reply in a new to-me message scan.

I was, I was being lazy lol.

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