Re: Yike whats this [Undownloaded article 9563] 180 of them

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I just saw something I never saw before in my comp.lang.perl.moderated
> group. This group is under agent control, and I just cvs'ed yesterday.
>
> I happened to open it with a C-u <RET> and I found 189 messages that
> say:
> [...]
>  1@  31-Dec [   0: Gnus Agent          ] [Undownloaded article 9561]
>  1@  31-Dec [   0: Gnus Agent          ] [Undownloaded article 9562]
>  1@  31-Dec [   0: Gnus Agent          ] [Undownloaded article 9563]
> [...]
>
> Note the old date.  And I've never seen this notation in a summary
> buffer before. Gnus Agent listing out undownloaded articles like that.

Gnus Agent knows nothing about these articles, but these articles
possibly exist on the server. Therefore, nnagent inserts such bogus
lines.  The date means nothing.

> The very odd thing is that this group was begun fresh Jan 9 and has a
> predicate of `true'.  There should be no undownloaded articles.
> Further these file numbers do not in fact exist.  Also, they are not
> known to the .overview file, ditto .agentview.  Nor do they exit in
> .newsrc.eld.  Agent.lib/history doesn't know about them either.

If you see those articles in plugged mode, but see such lines when you
reenter the group in unplugged mode, then it is a bug in Gnus Agent.

> However I did find a huge list in agent.lib/history about a different
> group that looks like:
>
> [...]
> No-Message-ID-in-article	730859	alt.solaris.x86 59576 
> No-Message-ID-in-article	730859	alt.solaris.x86 59577 
> No-Message-ID-in-article	730859	alt.solaris.x86 59578 
> [...]
>
> Why are article numbers differernt than file names there? And is it
> likely there really weren't message ids in hundreds of messages.

File names? The second numbers are article numbers, i.e. file
names. Could you check whether the articles really have no
Message-ID's?

ShengHuo