On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Marco van Loon wrote: > > I can only confirm this bug, and it indeed seems to happen when the server > > (or the connection with the server), for one reason or another goes away > > while trn is running. > > Nah, in those kinds of cases trn 4.0 test72 just hangs (kill -9 needed) > for me; I don't seem to experience absurdly high article numbers in those > cases. Using my crappy ISP newsserver I've experienced trn lockups > because of crashed connection a few dozens of times, but not a single > time 'absurdly high article numbers'... That's where there is a difference: I'm using the latest one, test76. And I can certainly it's an improvement over what I was using before that (test74 of 75). Try it. > Well, I seem to remember once telnetting to a newsserver and getting > too high article numbers in response to a GROUP <newsgroup>, so maybe > our problems are not exactly the same... > I think I'll compile test76 or CVS with DEBUG turned on and run a while > like that to see if that results in useful info. At least you'll get a lot of NNTP logging, which is sometimes very useful... > > (Still a quite happy trn user, since there's nothing better to be gotten > > for reading news..) > > Yeah, I agree: trn for reading and posting text messages and downloading > binaries (with nget as backup for quirky servers etc.) and my own shell > script for posting binaries is all I need for usenet. :) Yup. Wish it would be updated a bit to remove the biggest bugs, but as it is now it's (still) very useable, and the best tool for reading text-news. For binaries I'm not sure it's the best, but it's certainly useable... Best regards, Patrick. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/
