From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6342 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Messages marked as ancient without apparent reason Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:56:09 +0100 Organization: University of Siegen Message-ID: <873bkqloee.fsf@buerbach048.buerbach.wohnheim.uni-siegen.de> References: <8764u0aakr.fsf@debian.IGP> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671873 31119 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:36:40 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.uni-siegen.de!buerbach048.buerbach.wohnheim.uni-siegen.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.hrz.uni-siegen.de Original-X-Trace: ws-fra1.win-ip.dfn.de 1134900005 1378 141.99.2.19 (18 Dec 2005 10:00:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@dfn.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:00:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Wk77oMIkzFP8jms3TvXUC7elLA= X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.99.26.48 X-Original-Trace: 18 Dec 2005 11:03:14 +0100, 141.99.26.48 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:6484 Original-Lines: 26 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 6484 Tue Jan 17 17:36:40 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6342 Archived-At: Hi Andreas, Andreas Goesele writes: > Hi! > > I had asked this question before, I have looked through the google > archives, I have studied the manual but I don't find an answer to a > problem I have had right from the time I started to use gnus up to > 5.10.6: > > Every now and then (mostly on weekends?) *part* (the majority) of the > older but *not* read messages are marked as ancient with an O. This is > strange for two reasons: 1. I neither read them nor marked them as > read. 2. If I enter a group without prefix I normally don't see any > ancient messages, I have to enter C-u before entering to see the > ancient messages. have you solved the problem? I am aware of the problem since my transition from an external news server to a local leafnode. I guess there is an interdependency. Any hints are greatly appreciated. Michael -- We're back to the times when men were men and wrote their own device drivers Linus Torvalds