Re: 423 bad article number from local spool but header are there?

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Looks like it did it, there was a directory under News called agent
with what looked like overview files, in addition to the ones for the
back end for mail!

Thanks.

on Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:05:19 +0100 Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:
>
>> I am using Oort gnus 0.07, and I discovered in most of the usenet
>> groups I subscribe to, that when I went into the summary page, the
>> first several articles (or more maybe depending on the group), had the
>> header info, subject, etc. but when I tried to read them I got 423 bad
>> article number from the local server.  Where does it keep that header
>> stuff and how can it get out of sync with the spool -- and aside from
>> hitting space at each one of those and gnus marking them as g, is
>> there any way to fix such a thing?
>
> Maybe
>
>   (setq gnus-agent nil)
>
> will help.  Since you're reading from a local spool, there's no point in
> using the agent (which was turned on by default in Oort 0.7).

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com