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 "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> writes:
> ted@nowtsfree.freeserve.co.uk (Ted) writes:
> 
> [snipppppety] [snip]
> 
> > I presume leafnode skips a news-group because freeserve offers it crazy
> > article numbers. 
> 
> Not quite. Leafnode generally puts up a warning about "upstream servers
> switched?" when it detects the maximum article # in the parent is suddenly
> less than its own, but as it works by Message-ID instead, it seems to work
> anyway. (It just drops down to "last initial_fetch combined with max_fetch"
> and gets, in my case, no more'n 250 or 150 articles.)

I've just looked closer at the source while replying to Dan's post.
I may have caused the 'skip' messages from fetchnews, because I sometimes
run a script that touches groups I want to read before running fetchnews.
Maybe I forgot for a while. The 'skip' messages refer to groups that are
unread for too long. I was misunderstanding them.

> [snip]
> > Is there a fix I should know about?
> 
> nodesc=1 and fetchnews -fvvvv once more for good measure, should fix
> it. Oh, and remove the ranges in ~/.newsrc, so it just looks like
> 	uk.comp.os.linux:
> with no numbers - you'll have to do a selective catch-up in xrn but that
> way you can avoid reading too mcuh, anyway.

Yes, I'm trying that now. Thanks.

Ted.
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