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 In article <832102282_OASIS_@musimind.demon.co.uk>
  vi@musimind.demon.co.uk (Vincent Iyengar) said:-

>I've noticed that it usually takes a few days for an article I have
>written to appear in a news group.  Sometimes the article or a reply to
>another article never gets posted at all.  Why is this?  What happens to
>the article?  Does it just disappear in the ether of cyberspace?

    Me too! I sometimes recieve responses to a message from me, but I
cannot retrieve my message from the newsserver! Sometimes yes, or
sometimes after 2 days... I think it's the server fault, bad configuration
or something like this...


>I notice it says something like 501 syntax error when it goes, but this
>does not always seem to be a problem.

    The 501 syntax error is a minor bug from Oasis when NOS selects the
newsgroup before posting. It does this twice, once with the newsgroup
name, and once without, just blank parameter. It's a problem of format in
the spool/mqueue/*.nwk file. Skip it, no fear... no consequences.


>Also the articles that I download from various newsgroups are almost never
>complete. They are nearly always truncated in the middle.

    Probably it's only the two "last line disapears" problems. The last
line of the text window in Oasis reader is not shown... just hit arrow up,
than arrow down, and it's back. It disapears only when you jump *a page*
up or down. More annoying the last line of an article can never be
shown... not with an article like mine, the last line is just blank, but
if there were text... I resolved the problem by preprocessing the
batch.txt before unbatching, adding a blank line as last of each article.


>I've tried looking for a file called batch.txt, but I don't appear to have
>one.

    Well your setup is perhaps to unbatch the batch.txt automaticaly after
logoff... check menu Options/preferences, the button "unbatch" in the
Daily Net column must not be selected. After logoff the file will be in
oasis/spool/articles/ directory, and you must "unbatch" manually with the
menu option to transfer the articles to the newsbase.
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