Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!ucla-cs!wales From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: RN bug -- throws away unread articles Message-ID: <34104@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 11 Apr 90 21:08:40 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 22 For some time now, we (UCLA CS Dept.) have been plagued by an RN bug that -- under circumstances not clearly understood -- marks articles as read which have not in fact been read. This happens in the course of ordinary reading of articles in a news- group via "^N". It usually (always?) occurs in conjunction with the "Skipping..." message from RN. One minute, there may be several dozen (or even several hundred) unread articles in a newsgroup; the next thing the user knows, there are only a few unread articles, or even none at all. We are currently running a version of RN with the following header: $Header: rn.c,v 4.3.2.2 89/11/28 01:51:25 sob Locked $ Also, we are using NNTP to access articles from a local server. Does anyone else experience this same problem? Is there a fix for it? -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes, Commodore."