comp.sys.acorn.misc

[Colin Matthews]

I haven't had any postings on comp.sys.acorn.misc since August 16,
although apps and hardware are coming through - is there an Orpheus
news server problem here?

[Paul Vigay]

Post by Colin Matthews
I haven't had any postings on comp.sys.acorn.misc since August 16,
although apps and hardware are coming through - is there an Orpheus news
server problem here?

Nope. Messages arriving ok here.

In fact, I notmally find out within a few minutes if there is anything
wrong with the news server, as we have quite a few subscribers using news
now - being that we're one of the few ISPs who still offer news.

[Dr Peter Young]

Post by Paul Vigay

Post by Colin Matthews
I haven't had any postings on comp.sys.acorn.misc since August 16,
although apps and hardware are coming through - is there an Orpheus news
server problem here?

Nope. Messages arriving ok here.

And here, lots of them.

Post by Paul Vigay
In fact, I notmally find out within a few minutes if there is anything
wrong with the news server, as we have quite a few subscribers using news
now - being that we're one of the few ISPs who still offer news.

Perhaps a NewsHound setting has gone astray?

With best wishes,


Peter.

[Colin Matthews]

Post by Paul Vigay
Nope. Messages arriving ok here.

Still none this morning - any other reason why this newsgroup should
have gone astray (I haven't unticked it in Pluto!)?

Colin

[Colin Matthews]

Post by Colin Matthews
any other reason why this newsgroup should
have gone astray (I haven't unticked it in Pluto!)?

Just to answer my own question, I unticked it, downloaded, reticked it
and 30 messages came in : so it was a Pluto glitch.

Colin

[Dr Peter Young]

Post by Colin Matthews

Post by Colin Matthews
any other reason why this newsgroup should
have gone astray (I haven't unticked it in Pluto!)?

Just to answer my own question, I unticked it, downloaded, reticked it
and 30 messages came in : so it was a Pluto glitch.

I suspect more likely NewsHound. It's a very useful app, but setting
it up do do what you want is a bit tricky. Also, it doesn't always
seem to do what Messenger tells it to do, and from the days when I
used Pluto I think this applies to Pluto as well.

With best wishes,

Peter.

[Nick Roberts]

Post by Colin Matthews

any other reason why this newsgroup should have gone astray (I
haven't unticked it in Pluto!)?

Just to answer my own question, I unticked it, downloaded, reticked
it and 30 messages came in : so it was a Pluto glitch.

You don't say what fetcher you are using. It doesn't appear as part of
the User-Agent line in your headers, and I think that NewsHound adds
that information as it sends the posting, so should I deduce that you
are still using NNTPFetch & NNTPSend?

If so, you should change to NewsHound - NNTPFetch (the transport built
into Voyager) has a bug that can cause it to drop individual newsgroups
from its internal copy of your subscribed list (so Pluto thinks you ar
e still subscribed, but NNTPFetch doesn't).

[Colin Matthews]

Post by Nick Roberts
You don't say what fetcher you are using. It doesn't appear as part
of the User-Agent line in your headers, and I think that NewsHound
adds that information as it sends the posting, so should I deduce
that you are still using NNTPFetch & NNTPSend?

You should indeed.

Post by Nick Roberts
If so, you should change to NewsHound

I know - I've had NewsHound for ages but just never get round to it!

Thanks.

Colin

[Tennant Stuart]

Post by Nick Roberts

Post by Colin Matthews

any other reason why this newsgroup should have gone astray (I
haven't unticked it in Pluto!)?

Just to answer my own question, I unticked it, downloaded, reticked
it and 30 messages came in : so it was a Pluto glitch.

You don't say what fetcher you are using. It doesn't appear as part of
the User-Agent line in your headers, and I think that NewsHound adds
that information as it sends the posting, so should I deduce that you
are still using NNTPFetch & NNTPSend?
If so, you should change to NewsHound - NNTPFetch (the transport built
into Voyager) has a bug that can cause it to drop individual newsgroups
from its internal copy of your subscribed list (so Pluto thinks you ar
e still subscribed, but NNTPFetch doesn't).

Or just examine !Voyager.Apps.Transports.!NNTPFetch.HistoryDir and make
sure it hasn't been cluttered up with zero length files - delete them.


TS