On 30-Oct-00, George Bayliss wrote: > >> >> 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. Sorry, I did mean newgroups.i sotra forgot MD-II does email as well :-) > 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. Not in this case. My time is always within seconds of correct. > 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. I wish I had doen that now. Iwent ahead and dowloaded all. and noe I have thousands of post to delete. Without a date shown in MD-II Ican only delete by thread. Oh well. . . <sigh> Regards -- Death: To stop sinning suddenly. Support *Open Directory Project* No Banners, No junk-just information. *ODP *is built by volunteers and owned by the community . *-------> http://dmoz.org <*-----------Check it out *Patrick Ford Auckland, New Zealand* /#icq#/ 51642681* __________________________________________________________________ MicroDot-II Mailing List - http://www.vapor.com/md2/ MicroDot-II FAQ: http://faq.vapor.com/md2/ Listserver Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=HELP Unsubscribe....: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=UNSUBSCRIBE
