Re: [Pan-users] "missing" articles

[Duncan]

On Tue 18 Mar 2003 14:55, Duncan posted as excerpted below:
> On Tue 18 Mar 2003 13:51, Alberto BARSELLA posted as excerpted below:
> > The problem is not with the articles appearing as "read", but with some
> > articles not appearing at all unless I do a "get all headers".
> > Is it possible that what you describe also affects "get new headers"?
> > I mean: it yesterday's count was 10000 and today's 11000, I suppose that
> > pan will download as "new headers" from 10001 to 11000.  In this case,
> > if one server is lagging behind (say by 500 articles), when switching to
> > it there are 500 articles which will never be downloaded.
>
> That's what I meant but I guess that's NOT what I said, eh?
>
> IOW, PAN thinks the messages have already been read and deleted, because
> all it sees is the last-message number, I'd guess.  Therefore, when
> messages come in previous to that number, it doesn't d/l them or show them
> to you, because it thinks you already saw them and dispensed with them.  (I
> mean appeared as read in that sense, not marked as read, I guess.)

Actually, it doesn't even see them, because it doesn't check for them again.  
All it checks for is after the last number it read..  Therefore, it doesn't 
even know they are there, TO display to you.

-- 
Duncan
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