[Pan-users] Re: Anybody getting va.forsale??

[Duncan]

Beartooth posted on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:15:29 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:46:30 -0700, Travis wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Beartooth" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden> Sent: Monday,
>> August 10, 2009 09:38 AM Subject: [Pan-users] Anybody getting
>> va.forsale??
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I haven't seen a single post on va.forsale in months. Just now I tried
>>> telling my newsreader to get all headers; it churned very briefly --
>>> and got nothing.
>>> 
>>> Could this be some bad setting in Pan??
>> 
>> I just checked "va.forsale" on Giganews and the most recent post is
>> dated August 7th 2009.
> 
>       Having unsubbed, I resubbed, and still got no posts whatever.
> Could I have somehow inadvertently told Pan to ignore a whole group?
> Where do I look, and for what??

I wonder if you're seeing a bug I have with a couple groups.  I've had it 
for awhile, but haven't been able to trace it down completely or figure 
out exactly how to fix it, except that I know if I start with a new 
config (wiping all that pan knows about all the groups, the general 
preferences, server info, hotkeys, and scorefile can remain), it works 
again.

The problem /seems/ to be related to cross-posts.  In my case (but it 
doesn't appear to be in yours, so maybe it's a different problem, maybe 
not), I've had a long-time subscription to particular groups.  When I 
subscribed to related groups to which some messages from my previous 
subscriptions had been cross-posted, for some reason pan gets all screwed 
up and won't even actually check for headers.  I /think/ it has something 
to do with the high water marks, etc, as if pan is trying to use the xref 
numbers for the older/larger group for the new group, and thus ignores 
all the posts in the new group since they're numbered way lower than the 
numbers it's trying to use from the other group.

As a result, there's several groups that I can't get any activity on at 
all, in my pan main text data instance.  I could get them in my test 
instance, which didn't have the history from the more active/mature/older 
groups to mix it up, but that's not what I wanted, and I've ended up just 
sitting on the problem (well, other than mentioning it here a few times), 
because I couldn't easily pin it down well enough for a proper bug report 
or whatever, and it hasn't risen to high enough priority to spend the 
possibly several hours when I'm at my best (IOW, not too tired to think 
straight, etc), trying to troubleshoot the thing.

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