[Pan-users] Re: very peculiar bug with EasySW news-server (home of CUPS)

[walt]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:57:32 +0000, SciFi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Been noticing a peculiar thing with EasySW's news-servers (home of
> CUPS).
> 
> Add 'news.easysw.com' to your Pan server list, get the list of groups,
> then subscribe to 'cups.commit'.
> 
> Getting all headers shouldn't be too much at all.
> 
> Go ahead to mark all headers read.
> 
> Now, try getting new headers for that group, and you'll always be
> presented with a number (448) even if no new posts have been made.
> 
> Go ahead to mark all headers read again, rinse & repeat -- you'll always
> see (448) new messages there...

No, I don't see the number 448 anywhere, but I do see a bunch of article 
headers that apparently don't have bodies -- every article prior to March 
2005, in fact.  When I mark the group as read and then return to the 
group later on, all those headers are now gone -- until I fetch 'all' 
headers for that group again.

Charles has made a remarkable number of commits to svn in the last two 
days -- maybe he's taking new viamins -- so the 448 thingy may have just 
been fixed in the latest 'Demon Sweat'.  You might give it a try.