Subj : Newslink Help
To   : Digital Man
From : Patch
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 09:26 pm

  Re: Newslink Help
  By: Digital Man to Patch on Sat Oct 01 2005 02:11 pm

 > That line says that your import pointer value (20059) is equal to that of th
 > last message in the news gropu (also 20059) - there are no new messages to
 > download.

Ah, so then if something is posted afterwards, it will send to me?!?  That's
a bit of good news, but before I go adding more newsgroups I really would
love to see some messages come from there.




 > Are you sure that new messages have been posted since your first scan?

No, I don't know.  I at least posted a hello message in alt.bbs.allsysop.  I
know at least one Synchro-Sysop got it.  If possible can you reply back to it
to see if I can get that?!



 > Did you have the 'I' flag set in your newslink.cfg *before* your first scan?

Ummm... no.  I did the scan, then read the quoted area below.  However I
thought that "add(ing) the line 'FLAGS I'" would import "all existing
articles" even after the first scan.


 > From newslink.txt:
 > 
 >    D. By default, NewsLink will only import articles (aka messages) posted
 >       *after* the first scan of the newsgroups (i.e. it will not import
 >       *any* articles during the first run). If you want NewsLink to import
 >       *all* existing articles for *all* linked newsgroups (potentially many
 >       *thousands* of messages, depending on the News Server), add the line
 >       "FLAGS I" (case insensitive).
 >       WARNING: Using this feature may cause the initial NewsLink execution
 >       to take a long time to download all the existing articles (potentially
 >       many thousands) that may be stored on the News Server.



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