Re: Re-Importing a News Article

From: walt moffett (walt@scott.net)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:53:00 -0600

In article <Gt/NzkW2vb6P092yn@daina.bga.com>, you wrote:
>I keep a newsgroup for which my expiration-time is 31 days.
>Today I received from my ISP an obviously truncated article
>for that newsgroup.
>
>I verified that the news server at my ISP has this problem.
>Assuming they can "re-fetch" the complete article from their
>source, I need to "make room" for re-importing that article
>into Yarn. The 'simplest' way I can think of to do this is:
>
> - Mark that article as "read"
> - Mark all other articles in the newsgroup as "unread"
> - Run 'expire -r' against that newsgroup
> - Mark the articles in the newsgroup as "read"
>
>Sounds kinda complicated.
>
>mikus
>

and you left out rebuild -s to totally nuke the article from the news.dat
and history file, else import would lead to the message being tossed since
its in your history as being received.

However, the problem is that the message in question is truncated. Your
news server would have to go thru the same contortions (more or less) to
get the article and then it still maybe truncated since the server it
recieves articles from has only that copy and would zap any other unless
it went thru the same dance along with any other servers in the path.

Suggestion:

Either wait for a re post or try either www.dejanews.com or
altavista.digital.com and search for the article. From either site you
can post a followup btw. Or mail the poster and ask for a copy.

And in case anyone is interested: Lynx for win32s has been ported and can
be found at: URL=http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm. It is
released under the terms of the Gnu license.