Message `unexists'

Message `unexists'

[Harry Putnam]

I've seen the unlikely statement `message unexists' turn up in these
circumstances:

In agent mode  Select an undownloaded message and put the download
(%) mark on it.  Close group go plugged and press `J u' on that group.
To down load the wanted message.

Go unplugged again and open group, then try to open the message in
question.

That `unexists' message pops up.   I've found if I open a different
message then come back to the newly downloaded one, something is
cleared somewhere and the message opens.

This time I have a particularly stubborn case where the above proceedure
still won't open the message, and I continue to get the `unexits' message.

Repeated attempts at marking for download, downloading with `J u'
opening various messages then the questionable one, and I still get:

`Message unexists'   What does that unlikely statement really mean anyway.

Re: Message `unexists'

[Shenghuo ZHU]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:


> I've seen the unlikely statement `message unexists' turn up in these
> circumstances:
> 
> In agent mode  Select an undownloaded message and put the download
> (%) mark on it.  Close group go plugged and press `J u' on that group.
> To down load the wanted message.
> 
> Go unplugged again and open group, then try to open the message in
> question.
> 
> That `unexists' message pops up.   I've found if I open a different
> message then come back to the newly downloaded one, something is
> cleared somewhere and the message opens.
> 
> This time I have a particularly stubborn case where the above proceedure
> still won't open the message, and I continue to get the `unexits' message.
> 
> Repeated attempts at marking for download, downloading with `J u'
> opening various messages then the questionable one, and I still get:
> 
> `Message unexists'   What does that unlikely statement really mean anyway.

After `J u', does the file exist in the agent directory? What is the
article entry in .agentview ?

Shenghuo

Re: Message `unexists'

[Harry Putnam]

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > I've seen the unlikely statement `message unexists' turn up in these
> > circumstances:
> > 
> > In agent mode  Select an undownloaded message and put the download
> > (%) mark on it.  Close group go plugged and press `J u' on that group.
> > To down load the wanted message.
> > 
> > Go unplugged again and open group, then try to open the message in
> > question.
> > 
> > That `unexists' message pops up.   I've found if I open a different
> > message then come back to the newly downloaded one, something is
> > cleared somewhere and the message opens.
> > 
> > This time I have a particularly stubborn case where the above proceedure
> > still won't open the message, and I continue to get the `unexits' message.
> > 
> > Repeated attempts at marking for download, downloading with `J u'
> > opening various messages then the questionable one, and I still get:
> > 
> > `Message unexists'   What does that unlikely statement really mean anyway.
> 
> After `J u', does the file exist in the agent directory? What is the
> article entry in .agentview ?

The special stubborn case that I posted about was cleared up by a
restart of gnus.  I didn't think to check the things you mention
before restarting.  I haven't even been able to reproduce the first
case I described, which has happened many times.  

Maybe complaining about it .. fixed it...

Re: Message `unexists'

[Kai Großjohann]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> `Message unexists'   What does that unlikely statement really mean anyway.

Seems to be Newspeak for `does not exist'.  Newspeak is from George
Orwell's 1984?

Double plus good, plus good, good, ungood, plus ungood, double plus ungood...

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: Message `unexists'

[Hans de Graaff]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> > `Message unexists'   What does that unlikely statement really mean anyway.
> 
> Seems to be Newspeak for `does not exist'.  Newspeak is from George
> Orwell's 1984?

Yes, and BBDB has most of its messages in Newspeak. So likely BBDB was
confused.

Hans