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From: Gary Priest
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:00

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 In article <hrN4FWAPa1yzEwya@consltec.demon.co.uk>
  John Clark <JonClark@consltec.demon.co.uk> wrote:-

>In article <868961088_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>, Guy Harrison
><guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>Hi Demon Dudes ...
>>
>>Er, Why at 10:55 am approx did I get a newsfeed of nearly 4500 
>>articles? (I aborted 'cos it showed no signs of stopping).
>>
>Seems I just had the same. The 8 NGs I subscribe to just showed 5,390
>articles awaiting. Stayed on line 15 minutes and the number rapidly fell
>to 853, but only after 10 minutes. I was tempted to do the same and
>abort.

10 minutes? What software are you using? It's sure as hell not Oasis2!!

I spent 20 minutes Sunday. aborted. 45 minutes tonight. Aborted. Oasis2 had
only got down from 4000 approx to 1600 approx and then bloody well stalled!
So I had to abort anyway. I am getting so *sick* of Oasis2 (especially ICE).

Oasis2 allows you to change the date of each newsgroup. Supposedly so it
will only download articles from that date. Great I thought. Chage it to
today, skip all the crap. Wrong. Changed the date, ICE ignores it!! Still
tries to download all the crap and resets the dates I've just painstaikingly
changed. Ok. edit the groups.dta file to try and fix it. Now screwed up my
news data so badly I've had to lose *everything* and start again :(

As far as I'm concerned, that's it for Oasis2 and News. Sod it! I'm going to
have to find (or write) a bloody news client that works :(

Oasis2 is ok, but ICE sucks to say the least!!!!!!!

Cheers Demon. Cheers Phil & Dave.

Gary

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 Gary Priest,Southampton,England           gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk
 Atari Falcon030 + FPU + Nemesis           http://www.the-gap.demon.co.uk/ 
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Date: 1997/07/15
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