Subj : Newslink Help
To   : Patch
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 10:16 pm

  Re: Newslink Help
  By: Patch to Digital Man on 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
 >  > last message in the news gropu (also 20059) - there are no new messages t
 >  > download.
 > 
 > Ah, so then if something is posted afterwards, it will send to me?!?

Yes. 

 > 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.

Either wait a bit or subscribe to some more active newsgroups (?).
 
 >  > 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 i
 > to see if I can get that?!
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >  > Did you have the 'I' flag set in your newslink.cfg *before* your first sc
 > 
 > 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.

No. The 'I' flag only effectgs the initial scan. After the initial scan, your
local new-scan pointers are used (unless you use the "-ri" newslink.js
command-line switch).

                                                  digital man

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