Re: BUG REPORT: When a newsgroup server goes down...
From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:17:43 -0400
Post this at http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
You'll live longer, Jim, if you resolve to learn what an application *does*
and work within those parameters instead of fretting over what you think the
application *should* do or trying to make it do it.
-- ~PA Bear Jim Carlock wrote: > 2 Bugs: > > 1) When or if a newsgroup server goes down, ie loses a > connection. OE loses information about specific newsgroup > and deletes the information that did exist at one time. > > When a connection is lost between OE and a news-server, OE > can and will delete certain newsgroups that were subscribed to > but can no longer be contacted. It does the deletion automatically > and at some point deletes the file holding the appropriate > messages, even though it may be ONLY a news-server problem. > > 2) And on a similar line of thought, it also deletes messages from > the message store file (.dbx) if the messages are not on the news > server. I'm reporting this as a bug and I am expecting someone > to say that it is by design. I can see where someone would say > that it is by design, just because Microsoft has a statement on > their website specifically stating that it is by design. And I don't > really have a problem, but Microsoft should consider it a bug, > because news servers sometimes do have problems and the > messages in the .dbx store file should only be deleted on a > per user selection basis, just as it happens with the Microsoft > news servers. This only happens on non-Microsoft newsgroup > servers.
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