Re: NNTP - delete messages?

From: Doug Frisk (PublicNews_at_removeme.fazwak.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:24:40 -0600

"TnChrstn" <TnChrstn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:104EE466-D32D-4D38-88A1-806EFBC43780@microsoft.com...
> We have had several NNTP issues lately.
> 1) A user replies to a post and attaches a file to his reply. That user
> is
> then unable to see his own post. But everyone else sees it fine.

Wacky. I'd guess that the client and server are out of sync in some way.

>
> 2) In testing issue #1 I created a bunch of test messages. Is there any
> way
> to get rid of them now?

You can cancel them if the control.cancel news group is writable.

>
> 3) One of our newsgroups has a message that cannot be downloaded. If you
> try to download all messages it stops at this one message and gives the
> error
> message "Your NNTP server has not responded in 60 seconds. Would you like
> to
> wait another 60 seconds for the server to respond?" Selecting Wait
> results
> in the same error message. Selecting Stop cancels the synchronization and
> gives the message that "It is likely that the message was removed or
> expired
> from the server. 0x800c006f". Any additional messages and newsgroups are
> not downloaded. Users are having to remove this newsgroup from their list
> in
> order to get all of their other newsgroup mesages.

This happens when a message is only partially posted. If someone terminates
the client while posting, sometimes the message gets stored but the
termination sequence <cr><lf>.<cr><lf> isn't there. when a client attempts
to download the message the server sends all that it has but the client
waits for the message to finish because it never sees that termination
sequence. The only way I've been able to fix it is to manually add fix the
messages in the news spool.

>
> 4) If anyone knows where I can find some good information on NNTP it would
> be appreciated.

There is none. The RFCs have some decent info, but overall documentation on
NNTP sucks.

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