Thanks, Bill. Some very useful info there. So, it appears that trn was told that the group had a low-article of 701 (presumably by the result of the GROUP command), but the LISTGROUP command returned an article 700. I'd be interested in knowing if this is a consistent off-by-one error in that news server software, or if the error can vary from group to group (i.e. is it ever greater than 1?). One solution is to tell trn to just ignore numbers that are too low. (Patch appended.) Whether this is the best solution depends on the details of the underlying problem with your news server. The other alternative would be to use this spot in the code to lower the absfirst value and tweak the article_list object. ..wayne.. ---8<------8<------8<------8<---cut here--->8------>8------>8------>8--- Index: bits.c --- bits.c 25 May 2000 05:11:41 -0000 1.1 +++ bits.c 27 Sep 2002 00:48:14 -0000 @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ if (nntp_at_list_end(ser_line)) break; an = (ART_NUM)atol(ser_line); + if (an < absfirst) + continue; /* Ignore some wacked-out NNTP servers */ ap = article_ptr(an); if (!(ap->flags2 & AF2_BOGUS)) ap->flags |= AF_EXISTS; ---8<------8<------8<------8<---cut here--->8------>8------>8------>8--- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf
