OT: Blueyonder news server.

Dave Kahn said:

Cor. Just blinked to news-text.blueyonder.co.uk
expecting to get around 20 new messages from urc when it
grabbed 53,702

If one switches newsservers without resetting the account
(by just editing the servername in the current account), the
article count will almost certainly get mixed up. All
servers use their own numbering.

Dave Kahn said:

Cor. Just blinked to news-text.blueyonder.co.uk expecting
to get around 20 new messages from urc when it grabbed
53,702 going as far back as last September. They must just
have done a restore or something. :-)

Yes, It's being doing odd things since the end of last week
(since last time it was totally broken)

If you mark your subscribed groups as read the next time you
collect the headers you seem to get some old ones too. I got
about 20,000 the first time for URC but now its settled down
to about 500.

I wasn't sure at first if it was Blueyonder news or my move
to using Mozilla Thunderbird as a news reader.

Shhh! I wouldn't discuss it here as it will doubtless just
start another thread about how this Interweb thing works and
everyone will get very heated :-)

Jules

in message <[email hidden]>, Julesh

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Shhh!  I wouldn't discuss it here as it will doubtless ju-
st start another thread about how this Interweb thing
works and everyone will get very heated :-)

NO I WON'T!

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On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:34:32 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Dave Kahn said:

Cor. Just blinked to news-text.blueyonder.co.uk
expecting to get around 20 new messages from urc when it
grabbed 53,702

If one switches newsservers without resetting the account
(by just editing the servername in the current account),
the article count will almost certainly get mixed up. All
servers use their own numbering.

Didn't do that. I simply connected to the server I had
already been using all evening. The previous time I got
around 20 new messages. This time the floodgates opened.

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Julesh said:

If you mark your subscribed groups as read the next time
you collect the headers you seem to get some old ones too.

Yes, that's what I did. But surely that's a function in
the news reader client, not the server. I'm using Free
Agent ATM.

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Dave Kahn said:

Julesh said:

If you mark your subscribed groups as read the next time
you collect the headers you seem to get some old ones too.

Yes, that's what I did. But surely that's a function in
the news reader client, not the server. I'm using Free
Agent ATM.

Sorry, I'll rephrase that.

I marked the groups as read but next time I collected the
headers the newsreader was collecting old messages (which I
had read) as well as the new messages.

Anyway it seems to have stopped now. Blueyonder were having
problems with their news servers last week, but I changed
newsreader at about the same time, so the the problem might
have been here.

Jules

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:51:10 GMT, Julesh
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

Quoted message said:

Dave Kahn said:

Julesh said:

If you mark your subscribed groups as read the next
time you collect the headers you seem to get some old
ones too.

Yes, that's what I did. But surely that's a function in
the news reader client, not the server. I'm using Free
Agent ATM.

Sorry, I'll rephrase that.

I marked the groups as read but next time I collected the
headers the newsreader was collecting old messages (which I
had read) as well as the new messages.

Anyway it seems to have stopped now. Blueyonder were having
problems with their news servers last week, but I changed
newsreader at about the same time, so the the problem might
have been here.

No - the blueyonder news service has been abysmal of late.
(But this week, seems finally to be working properly,
touch wood).

they replaced the entire thing several weeks ago with a more
scalable solution, and the bedding-in problems have been
both terrible and long-lived.

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