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tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield) writes:
>
> One problem I found with this program, is that while most of the
> scan pointers are reset to the last message downloaded, a few groups have
> their pointers reset back to the first message that exists in the group.
> I've tried to isolate out the problem, and the closet I can fiqure is that
> in the groups that this happens, the ones and tens digits of the highest
> message is lower than the ones and tens digits of the lowest message....
>
> IE:  479-556   would reset the pointers to 479
> but  520-590   would reset to 590

Thanks for your observations.  I haven't heard of that one before, nor
have I seen it on my system where we've been running ZipNews for more
than a year.  (I HAVE seen several rare instances where the number of
articles extracted for a newsgroup doesn't seem to equal HiNumber minus
LoNumber per the display during the scan, but I don't recall failure of a
pointer to be updated with the last article number of a completed scan.)

Please let me know via e-mail should you (or anyone else) obtain more info
on this.

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