>
> HELP!!!
>
> All the message counters in MD-II seem to have been reset somehow.
> A group that normally has ten or twelve posts a day downloaded 300 odd
> before I unsubscribed it, and the next one that normally has two or
> three a day got everything from several months back!
>
> The program is unusable, because there are other groups I haven't
> downloaded yet that wil give me several thousand if the trend
> continues into them.
>
> What has happened and how can I fix it?
If you are talking about newsgroups rather than mailing lists this
problem is not unknown. It could be a problem of lack of
synchronisation between the time set on your comluter and the time
used by the ISP or wherever you download your newsfeed from.
The effect is similar to problems caused by two digit year identifiers
at the millennium rollover. The newsfeed thinks that if your time is
in the future, as far as it is concerned, that the last time you
enquired for new postings was a very long time ago. Hence you get the
lot :^(
IIRC you can't just unsubscribe then re-subscribe opting for the last
100 posts. You might have to delete (or remove) all the previous posts
in the folder first.
--
Regards
George Bayliss
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