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From: munnari!anu.anu.oz.au!gih900@CSC.DNET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: Client skim results in missing titles
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Date: 22 Jan 90 22:14:21 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!anu.anu.oz.au!gih900@CSC.DNET>
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>        I have a system with NEWS 5.9C served from another VMS/DECNET node
>        with the same version.  Every morning NEWSSKIM runs to update the
>        served newsgroups.  Occasionally, skim will update all added item
>        titles with "Title not Obtained" for articles that actually have
>        titles on the server.  I suspect that this is caused by a loss of
>        the network link (were are having intermitent network problems)
>        between the client and server.  Has anyone else experienced this
>        problem?
>
>        Is there any way to force the title updates on subsequent skims?
     
The next version will have the updates to address this problem.
     
cheers,
     
Geoff