Re: MT-NewsWatcher 3.4, osx

In article <mmodrall-38F376.21291309092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Modrall <mmodrall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi...
>
> I've been annoying people on this group with OS X questions for a
> week or so now, so I guess I'll try a slight riff on the vein. I just
> got a new iBook and am in the process of coming out of the 9.2 stoneage.
> I'm finding a lot of the os x equivalents for the things i'm used to
> using and one of those things is MT-Newswatcher.
>
> I downloaded v3.4 for OS X, and for the most part it looks and acts
> the same as the old os 9 counterpart. One odd quirk i've noticed,
> however, is that it always seems to drop about 10-20% of the postings.
> That is, if the last high-water mark in articles in my .newsrc file for
> a group is 100 and the get-since request to the nntp server says that
> it's up to 200, MTNewswatcher says I have 100 articles to read. But
> when I double-click on the newsgroup, it brings up the window and says
> that there are 80-90 articles to read; somewhere 10-20 articles just
> vanished.
>
> On the surface this sounds like something up on the nntp server end,
> but I never saw this consistent losing of articles using MT-Newswatcher
> on the same nntp server using os 9.2.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Try another news program to see if you get the same results. I suspect
the problem is with your news server, and trying a different news app
would confirm that suspicion or put it to rest. I am a frequent
MT-Newswatcher user and I have not had that problem. In fact, I am using
MT-Newswatcher to post this message.
.

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