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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2005MEGA download
For quite some time now my server has not been collecting all posts on rpca, although it was kind enough to tell me so. It would say at the bottom of the screen "xxx posts unread, xxxx not downloaded." The undownloaded posts increased and increased in number. I fiddled around with the settings to no avail. The instruction "download all messages" didn't seem to mean a thing to this reluctant server. I began to wonder what it might be about these posts that I wasn't allowed to see. Was my server operating its own form of censorship I asked myself? ;-) Until this morning, that is. I signed in this morning and was merrily reading away when suddenly my screen gave a sort of twitch, like an up and down movement. Yep, suddenly and for no apparent reason my server has seen fit to let me have a look at over a thousand posts it was previously keeping to itself!! Some of them have already expired from the server, dating back to when I was in hospital in May so I guess I'll not know what *they* said. So many things have happened to you all that I didn't know about! I shan't be able to read them all, but if you get a reply from me to a post you sent a while ago, this is why. Tweed > For quite some time now my server has not been collecting all posts on rpca, > although it was kind enough to tell me so. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Tweed OE only lets you download 1,000 posts at a time, so if I haven't been on the group for a week or so I can't get all the posts. Hugs, CatNipped >> For quite some time now my server has not been collecting all posts on > rpca, [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > CatNipped This has been happening for ages, months and months, not to do with being away at all, I never was when it started happening. Tweed > >> For quite some time now my server has not been collecting all posts on > > rpca, [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > Tweed Are you using Outlook Express or another newsreader? Can you set the number of downloaded messages it allows? Hugs, CatNipped > Are you using Outlook Express? Can you set the number of downloaded > messages it allows? The answer is "yes".  SignatureOnce a suicide bomber, always a suicide bomber >> Are you using Outlook Express? Can you set the number of downloaded >> messages it allows? > > The answer is "yes". Hey, gimme a chance ;-) I am 6 hours ahead and was in bed then..and out visiting all day today! Tweed >>> Are you using Outlook Express? Can you set the number of downloaded >>> messages it allows? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Hey, gimme a chance ;-) I am 6 hours ahead and was in bed then..and > out visiting all day today! Heh. >> > "Christina Websell" <spamfree@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in > message [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > > CatNipped Yes, and yes. It is set to download 1000 at a time. Tweed >> Are you using Outlook Express or another newsreader? Can you set the >> number [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Tweed I leave the box unticked, that way all the headers are downloaded, SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >>> Are you using Outlook Express or another newsreader? Can you set the >>> number [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > I leave the box unticked, that way all the headers are downloaded, ISTR that a number needs to be specified, not a case of leaving a box unticked, it's an ^ (the other way up) choose a number. There is no reason at all that I can see why they shouldn't all download as they arrive as I have my computer set to collect mails/posts every five minutes except when I go out or to bed, when I switch the computer off. There is plenty of room for them on my HD. I am as lucky as you, got broadband in this area in the last few months. Wonderful, isn't it? Tweed >>>> Are you using Outlook Express or another newsreader? Can you set >>>> the number [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Tweed If you specify a number that's how many get downloaded, the default is 300 the maximum is 1000, some of the binary groups easily exceed 1000 headers, particularly talking books, that's why I leave the box unticked. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >>>>> Are you using Outlook Express or another newsreader? Can you set >>>>> the number [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > headers, particularly talking books, that's why I leave the box > unticked. Ahh, now I understand, having looked properly this time! Duh. I have unticked the box. Thanks, Adrian :-) Tweed > OE only lets you download 1,000 posts at a time, so if I haven't been > on the > group for a week or so I can't get all the posts. BUT, having received the no. you specified (it only lets you choose up to 1,000) you can then go to "Tools" and click the "Get Next xxxx Messages" item on the menu, and so on until you've completely caught up. I think Tweed's problem, quite a common one IME, is that her ISP's NG provider just isn't picking up all the available messages even though it can tell they're there. The solution? Use an ISP whose NG service is provided by GigaNews: it never seems to miss a one (unfortunately in some case, IYSWIM). I'm with Pipex and they're splendid: not the cheapest but possibly the best value for money. Purrs (and watch that cycling now or we'll all be very cross) Gordon & the TT (FF soon) >> OE only lets you download 1,000 posts at a time, so if I haven't been >> on the [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Gordon & the TT (FF soon) Tweed uses news.individual.net news server, not her ISP which is Wanadoo, so I don't think that's her problem. In Tools,Options, Read I have get next nnn headers unchecked. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >> For quite some time now my server has not been collecting all posts >> on rpca, although it was kind enough to tell me so. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> I shan't be able to read them all, but if you get a reply from me to >> a post you sent a while ago, this is wh And you DID call the ISP, right? You called them several times during the blockage, right? And you called them when the massive message dump occurred, right? > OE only lets you download 1,000 posts at a time, so if I haven't been > on the group for a week or so I can't get all the posts. NOT true. That's what the wee button "Get next XXX messages" is for. I have mine set to 1000, yes, but that's just for my convenience. SignatureOnce a suicide bomber, always a suicide bomber >>> For quite some time now my server has not been collecting all posts >>> on rpca, although it was kind enough to tell me so. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > And you DID call the ISP, right? No. >You called them several times during the > blockage, right? No. And you called them when the massive message dump occurred, > right? No. A couple of them go right back to last Christmas.. >> OE only lets you download 1,000 posts at a time, so if I haven't been >> on the group for a week or so I can't get all the posts. > > NOT true. That's what the wee button "Get next XXX messages" is for. I > have mine set to 1000, yes, but that's just for my convenience. I suspect it is nothing to do with any of these things. It used to happen on my old computer sometimes and I had a different newsreader as well then, but never as many "not downloaded" before as now, or just before now actually!, since I now seem to have them all. 3752 messages, 170 unread. Tweed |
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