Re: [leafnode-list] Demon News Servers

["Carl Inglis" <uther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Carl Inglis wrote:
> 
> [demon news server apparently generates gaps in article numbering and
>  fills them later]
> 
> > Stefan Wiens wrote:
> > > An ugly workaround could be "fetchnews -x".
> > 
> > What does the "-x" flag do?
> 
> -x [number] forces fetchnews to reconsider the last "number" articles
> for fetching. That is, if the last article fetched in a particular
> newsgroup was 12547 and you run fetchnews with "-x 1000", it would
> retrieve message ids from all articles since 11547 and look whether
> they are already available.

Thanks for that, I tried it, and it found another 4 that had been 
missed. I'll set one every night to pull down an extra 300 or so 
since the average daily traffic is about 200 in the newsgroup I am 
most concerned about.

Many thanks!

Carl


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