On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:25:01 +1300, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid>
wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:39:05 +0000, Scott wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:01:44 +1300, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:38:31 -0500, Joe Gwinn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
>>>> Subject: test
>>>
>>> Please use one of the many *.test groups for test posts.
>>> Such as:
>>> alt.binaries.test
>>> alt.test
>>> comp.test
>>> free.test
>>> misc.test
>>> news.test
>>> rec.test
>>> soc.test
>>> us.test
>>
>> People invariably say this, but could it not be that OP is testing
>> access to this particular group?
Which was exactly the intent. If it turned out to be for instance an
Agent config problem or the like, I'd likely need this group to figure
out what to try. It turned out that I could post (receiving the bcc
email copy), but not receive.
I already had Hogwasher (which I tried but don't prefer), so I turned
it on, and found that nothing had been refreshed in any of the groups
I follow.
So I waited, and on the next day, everything that had been sent before
arrived, including my one test message.
My guess is that GigaNews was having problems. How did other
providers fare?
>Whether the OP is testing either read access or posting access, the OP
>does not need to post test messages to this newsgroup.
>
>Read access
>
> If the OP is not seeing new posts, the OP can check this group on
> Narkive [1], NovaBBS [2], or (until 24 February) Google Groups [3].
I didn't think of these at the time. Maybe next time.
> If they show no new posts, that is the reason.
>
> If they show new posts which the OP is not receiving, the OP should
> check the OP's filters.
> * The first check is to (temporarily) disable filtering for the
> group and sample headers.
> * If the OP is using this subject filter from another post
> {/?/?/?/?}
> that filter will catch _all_ posts, not only posts with question
> marks. The lesson is to test your filters on the group using
> Find Global (Ctrl+G) to make sure the filter does not catch
> other posts you do not want caught.
The filters had not been a problem before, and I had not changed them,
so that didn't seem likely. But I did check that. My filters are
configured to mark things as already read, so I can easily look for
such cases.
>Posting access
>
> If the OP has nothing useful to post, the OP does not need to post.
It was useful to me. And I was thinking only of solving the problem
at hand.
Thanks,
Joe Gwinn