From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38919 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Persistently getting zero length files Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:33:48 +0200 Message-ID: <86elov1e03.fsf@i2d.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174709 25112 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 5834 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 15:32:07 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.sunweb.ch (212.90.199.3) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 15:32:07 -0000 Original-Received: from i2d.home [212.90.194.158] by mail.sunweb.ch with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A3713DF02B0; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:32:01 +0200 Original-Received: from dada by i2d.home with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15luDU-0000A7-00; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:33:48 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:50:40 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38919 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38919 Harry Putnam writes: > Something is causing me to get lots of zero length files in some > groups. I run unplugged mostly so may be related. I can't see what is > causing it. And don't notice it till the odd message turns up in > summary buffer with subject `none'. I have seen the same behaviour about a year ago. It turned out that the (non local) news server I got my news from was completely messed up then. If I remember correctly the empty 'none' articles tended to reappear (after deleting them) on the next download. I have seen it also with older Gnus versions (only) when I was on a news server which kept messages for a very short time. I got to the impression that it happened when the Agent tried to download articles that had expired on the news server. I do not know if this conclusion was right, and I never saw it again with more recent Gnus versions. This time the articles did not reappear. Robert Epprecht