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From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.233344.26553@ns.uoregon.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 23:33:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.113850.4189@kingston.ac.uk> is_s440@ux.kingston.ac.uk
writes:
>I am running News2 on an SE30 with system7.
>
>When I open a news group and it asks for '200' or 'all'? I selected 200
>and got nothing.The same thing on a ci with system6 crashed the machine.
>
>It seems the best thing to do is select all (after increasing the apps
memory).
>
>
>This is a general problem when you have not read the news for a while and
there
>should be some way round it. Its a pity one cant edit the newsgroups
>file and mark older letters as all read - you can with rn.
>
>simon lucas
>

This is one of the things I hate about 2.0.2.  1.4 at least knew how many items
were actually available for reading. 2.0.2 seems to think anything that has
ever been posted is still available. One of the side effects is, as simon
points out, is an empty window if you select the 200 option and the first 200
it thinks are available, aren't.  What is worse, when you quit out of the empty
window, it doesn't even decrement the available or unread counts, so you get
the same thing the next time. Likewise, if you select the all option, it fails
to properly update the actual counts correctly, even if you read a couple of
the items.  The only way to get it to believe you've seen all those phantom
items is to use 'catch up'.

It is also slower than 1.4 in closing the windows, specially when it thinks
there are a lot of available, unread items.  The first couple of times this
happened, I thought my mac had locked up or there was a network 'event'.  By
the way, I am using a IIci and a Nuvotech ethernet card.  On the plus side, 1.4
would occasionally hang my mac and that hasn't happened with 2.0.2 yet.

I agree with simon that some way to edit a newsgroups file would be nice. Or at
least an option to specify the number of most recent items to show.