Re: [leafnode-list] Newbie questions - 1

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Steve Mansfield wrote:

> I noticed something else today. The cron job and Fetchnews are working, but 
> not collecting the volume of messages I was expecting. (Among others, I'm 
> subscribed to comp.os.linux.advocacy which normally gets a lot of traffic :-) 
> ). I saw a lot of 'can't parse' messages in the cron log. I added 'nodesc = 
> 1' to the config and am now getting more messages. Is this reasonable?

nodesc is not related to messages, but to newsgroup descriptions (only
relevant for new groups or when downloading the full active file =
newsgroup list). This is also documented in config.example.

Do you have maxfetch set to a low value?

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