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pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk

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Dec 14, 2009, 1:23:04 AM12/14/09

In article <XWLtYJWP...@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>
an...@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk "Andy" writes:

> I decided to rebuild my News database. When I reconnected to Demon, 188
> items of old News appeared, nearly all dated November.
>
> Is it me or is it them?

Probably them but there's no way of telling unless someone else
using Highwinds does the same exercise with a similar selection
of newsgroups...

I use NIN and just did a test resetting the newnews date back a
month, and no new articles came through. Not this this proves
anything, of course...

Pete
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"We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
we have borrowed it from our descendants."

David Bolt

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Dec 14, 2009, 5:42:00 AM12/14/09

On Monday 14 Dec 2009 06:23, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk painted this mural:

> In article <XWLtYJWP...@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>
> an...@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk "Andy" writes:
>
>> I decided to rebuild my News database. When I reconnected to Demon, 188
>> items of old News appeared, nearly all dated November.

If you look at the dates and use automatic expiry, you'll find they are
all dated up to the expiry time. E.g. if you have a 28 day auto-expiry,
they'll be dated up to some time during November 15th. If you're using
manual expiry, they'll date to 28 days, or more, from the date of the
last expiry.

>> Is it me or is it them?

It's Turnpike, not Highwinds.

> Probably them but there's no way of telling unless someone else
> using Highwinds does the same exercise with a similar selection
> of newsgroups...

When you do a rebuild, for some reason Turnpike seems to reset the
counters back somewhat and, because the Message-IDs are no longer in
the news database, it doesn't see them as duplicates and so retrieves
them again. I saw this multiple times using Turnpike and Leafnode,
which acts as a local news server.

> I use NIN and just did a test resetting the newnews date back a
> month, and no new articles came through. Not this this proves
> anything, of course...

For some reason, rebuilding the newsbase doesn't result in the counter
being set back when using newnews. It does when fetching news using
message numbers.

Regards,
David Bolt

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