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Hoyt Weathers

15/06/2004 3:35 PM

Unreadable msg

About mid-day today, I read all of the msgs which would open. That left one msg which
I could not get anyway I tried to get it. I restarted from a cold start. It is still
there and unfetchable.

Has, or did, this happened to any of you?

Hoyt W.


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Hoyt Weathers

in reply to Hoyt Weathers on 15/06/2004 3:35 PM

15/06/2004 3:58 PM

Woodchuck Bill wrote:

> Hoyt Weathers <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > About mid-day today, I read all of the msgs which would open. That
> > left one msg which I could not get anyway I tried to get it. I
> > restarted from a cold start. It is still there and unfetchable.
> >
> > Has, or did, this happened to any of you?
> >
> > Hoyt W.
> >
> >
>
> It happens to me about once a year. Does your newsreader have the
> "reconstruct thread" feature like Xnews does?
>
> --
> Bill

My newsreader does not have the "reconstruct thread" feature. By reasonable
deduction, I believe the ghost msg is "Crafters Needed" since I only saw it when Bob
replied to it. It does not appear in my view of the rec. msgs . Considering the
topic, I would not be interesting in it in any event. I will just forget about it.

Hoyt W.

Nn

Nova

in reply to Hoyt Weathers on 15/06/2004 3:35 PM

15/06/2004 5:11 PM

Hoyt Weathers wrote:

> About mid-day today, I read all of the msgs which would open. That left one msg which
> I could not get anyway I tried to get it. I restarted from a cold start. It is still
> there and unfetchable.
>
> Has, or did, this happened to any of you?
>
> Hoyt W.

It sounds like the message index for the group which is stored on your computer has
become corrupted. This can often be corrected by:

1. Unsubscribe from the group.
2. Clear your news reader's cache (both memory and disk).
3. Re-subscribe to the group.

HTH

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
(Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)

JT

John Thomas

in reply to Hoyt Weathers on 15/06/2004 3:35 PM

15/06/2004 10:47 PM

Nova <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> It sounds like the message index for the group which is stored on your
> computer has become corrupted. This can often be corrected by:
>
> 1. Unsubscribe from the group.
> 2. Clear your news reader's cache (both memory and disk).
> 3. Re-subscribe to the group.
>
> HTH
>

It's also possible the message has expired, depending upon how long/much
the server wants to keep things hanging around.

One can always go to groups.google.com and search for the thread ...

Regards,
JT

WB

Woodchuck Bill

in reply to Hoyt Weathers on 15/06/2004 3:35 PM

15/06/2004 8:40 PM

Hoyt Weathers <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> About mid-day today, I read all of the msgs which would open. That
> left one msg which I could not get anyway I tried to get it. I
> restarted from a cold start. It is still there and unfetchable.
>
> Has, or did, this happened to any of you?
>
> Hoyt W.
>
>

It happens to me about once a year. Does your newsreader have the
"reconstruct thread" feature like Xnews does?

--
Bill

Ba

B a r r y

in reply to Hoyt Weathers on 15/06/2004 3:35 PM

16/06/2004 12:57 AM

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:47:52 +0000 (UTC), John Thomas
<[email protected]> wrote:


>It's also possible the message has expired, depending upon how long/much
>the server wants to keep things hanging around.

News providers have been known to expire *everything* after a system
problem and start from scratch.

DAMHIKT


Barry


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