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In <c1.2b5.2N5Y1p$06V@SCOTGATE2.DEMON.CO.UK>, chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk (Chris H Lindley) writes:
>
>as the subject says, does anybody here use Changi with Demon?

yes

>So before I start delving, has any other Changi user got this
>problem with Demon?

Well, at least one doesn't.

I do have occasional missing posts, evidenced by people replying to postings
I have not seen, but I have no duplicates. I use -mx

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:38:54, chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk (Chris H 
Lindley) wrote:

> as the subject says, does anybody here use Changi with Demon?
> 

Yes, I haven't noticed any problems though.

Tim

On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 13:38:54 GMT, Chris H Lindley wrote:

> as the subject says, does anybody here use Changi with Demon?

Yes.

> The reason I ask, is that every couple of days, my news downloads
> are going up to 1 to 2k. Normally I'm getting 5/600 a day.

I don't understand what you are trying to tell us in the above.

> So before I start delving, has any other Changi user got this
> problem with Demon?

Not that I have noticed. I call chanx with:

chanx -mt -ld -dp news.demon.co.uk >> e:\changi\batch.new

Then post the resultant batch.new once offline, the reason for this is 
historic in that I wanted to process the news batch with other programs as 
well as changi.

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On Sun, 04 Oct 98 11:06:45 +0100, newspam@nexus.demon.co.uk wrote:
>On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 13:38:54 GMT, Chris H Lindley wrote:
>
>> as the subject says, does anybody here use Changi with Demon?
>
>Yes.
>
>> The reason I ask, is that every couple of days, my news downloads
>> are going up to 1 to 2k. Normally I'm getting 5/600 a day.
>
>I don't understand what you are trying to tell us in the above.

I mean normally I d/load about 500 messagesd a day! (far too much I know
but I browse a lot of different group!!) However somedays (it happened
again this morning) this goes up to about 2,0000 messages. Why this is so
I do not know. Plus I know that a lot of these are duplicates, because
when I expire them, it expires more messages than it scans!!


>> So before I start delving, has any other Changi user got this
>> problem with Demon?
>
>Not that I have noticed. I call chanx with:
>
>chanx -mt -ld -dp news.demon.co.uk >> e:\changi\batch.new


I use:-

chanx -mx  -n5 news.demon.co.uk

It's never given me problems in about a year's worth of use, but
this is making me wonder a touch!


>Then post the resultant batch.new once offline, the reason for this is 
>historic in that I wanted to process the news batch with other programs as 
>well as changi.

I used to do this, but found if the line was dropped, and In-joy
redialled, when it restarted the rnews batch file, it lost all the
original news!!!


Cheers
Chris

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On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 22:01:57 +0100 (BST), news@fenrir.demon.co.uk wrote:
>On Sat, 03 Oct 1998 16:06:57 GMT, Peter Robins wrote:
>
>>In <c1.2b5.2N5Y1p$06V@SCOTGATE2.DEMON.CO.UK>, chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk (Chris H Lindley) writes:
>>>
>>>as the subject says, does anybody here use Changi with Demon?
>>
>>yes
>>
>>>So before I start delving, has any other Changi user got this
>>>problem with Demon?
>>
>>Well, at least one doesn't.
>>
>>I do have occasional missing posts, evidenced by people replying to postings
>>I have not seen, but I have no duplicates. I use -mx
>
>I use -mb with all the latest patches. I see quite a few cases where I
>get triplicated, or duplicated articles with the same IDs, but each
>article has a separate reference in my news spool.
>
>I don't know when this started exactly, but others, including {R}, feel
>that the Borg is broken in some respects, so I don't worry too much
>about it, my news downloads rarely if ever exceed BT's minimum charge
>period.

I've recently started to subscribing to the demon.service group!!

The news server's do get a bit of a slagging of there don;t they?

>
>One day I will get round to doing a thorough investigation.

Well let me know!


Cheers
Chris


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On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:56:03 GMT, Chris H Lindley wrote:

> I mean normally I d/load about 500 messagesd a day!

Only 500? Don't keep an eye on the number of messages but the average news 
batch is about 750k, with a spread from 200k to over 1M.

> Plus I know that a lot of these are duplicates, because when I expire 
> them, it expires more messages than it scans!!

Something wrong with your history file? Are you expiring with to short a 
time? Rnews should report "435 Got It" or something similar for dupes that 
the history file doesn't catch.

> I used to do this, but found if the line was dropped, and In-joy
> redialled, when it restarted the rnews batch file, it lost all the
> original news!!!

Probably not using two >'s for the redirection pipe to the news batch file.
">" deletes an existing file and starts a fresh, ">>" appends the new data 
to an existing file or starts a new one.

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