64 bit integers for windows?

Hi,

Now that slrn has re-entered pre-release testing is it a good time to
allow 64 integers for article numbers in the windows slrn by default?
I am running the current svn slrn on windows:

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\andrew>slrn --version
slrn pre1.0.0-2
        * Note: This version is a developer preview.
S-Lang Library Version: 2.1.4
Compiled at: Nov 27 2008 11:26:58
Operating System: Win32

COMPILE TIME OPTIONS:
 Backends: +nntp -slrnpull +spool
 External programs / libs: -canlock -inews -ssl -uudeview +iconv
 Features: +decoding +emphasized_text +end_of_thread +fake_refs
+gen_msgid
    -grouplens +msgid_cache +piping +rnlock +spoilers -strict_from
 Using 64 bit integers for article numbers.

DEFAULTS:
 Default server object:     nntp
 Default posting mechanism: nntp
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phantom posts

Often there are numerous messages listed for a newsgroup but when I 
download them there are only a few. The latest exmple is rec.guns which 
showed 171 messages but 5 were present after downloading. Not sure if 
this is a slrn problem or a news server problem. Any ideas or 
suggestions would be appreciated. I'm running slrn 0.9.9p1/mm/ao on 
ubuntu 8.04.

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Re: phantom posts

Hello Robert,

Robert Holtzman <holtzm <at> cox.net> wrote:
> Often there are numerous messages listed for a newsgroup but when I 
> download them there are only a few. The latest exmple is rec.guns which 
> showed 171 messages but 5 were present after downloading. Not sure if 
> this is a slrn problem or a news server problem.

It's neigther a problem of slrn nor the news server. These phantom
messages are canceled or superseded messages. The news server
increments the article number for each message. Slrn later tries to
fetch the new message, but the server doesn't deliver the deleted
messages. Slrn can't see which messages aren't available until it tries
to fetch them.

Bye, Jörg.
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Re: phantom posts

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> Robert Holtzman <holtzm <at> cox.net> wrote:
>> Often there are numerous messages listed for a newsgroup but when I 
>> download them there are only a few. The latest exmple is rec.guns which 
>> showed 171 messages but 5 were present after downloading. Not sure if 
>> this is a slrn problem or a news server problem.
>
> It's neigther a problem of slrn nor the news server. These phantom
> messages are canceled or superseded messages. The news server
> increments the article number for each message. Slrn later tries to
> fetch the new message, but the server doesn't deliver the deleted
> messages. Slrn can't see which messages aren't available until it tries
> to fetch them.

Hi

Thanks for the reply. It's good to know I don't have a problem.

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Re: slrn-0.9.9p1 released

John E. Davis wrote:
> This weekend I found time to release 0.9.9p1, which contains a number
> of small patches to 0.9.9. 

If anyone can change the slrn.sf.net pages: RPMs of 0.9.9p1 for CentOS 5
and RHEL 5 can be found at <http://people.centos.org/ralph/packages/>
(the same place the 0.9.9 packages are at).

Cheers,

Ralph

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Re: slrn-0.9.9p1 released

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:56:18PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> If anyone can change the slrn.sf.net pages: RPMs of 0.9.9p1 for CentOS 5
> and RHEL 5 can be found at <http://people.centos.org/ralph/packages/>
> (the same place the 0.9.9 packages are at).

Thanks very much for that Ralph, I have altered the site to relect the
change.

All the best,

  Andrew Strong

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