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 Message 1766 
 mark lewis to Flavio Bessa 
 Renumbering message bases 
 05 Mar 18 09:57:18 
 
 On 2018 Mar 05 09:44:54, you wrote to All:

 FB> Had recently to pack/renumber my message base because of a corrupted
 FB> JAM area.

 FB> After doing this, I can't see any new messages for that particular
 FB> area at JAMNNTPD...

you have to unsubscribe the area and then rejoin it to reset your news
reader's pointers for that area...

that's the big difference between BBSes' message areas and news servers'
message areas... on BBSes, the message pointers are kept on the BBS... on news
servers, the message pointers are the responsibility of the users' news
readers...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
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