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Subject:    [sylpheed:15686] Re: newsgroup indexign problem
From:       Shahid I Malik <smalik () cs ! utexas ! edu>
Date:       2002-08-31 0:50:26
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well i tried what you did but as soon as it checks for new msgs again it shows
it messed up like originally.  but im glad im not hte only one so i guess there
is a bug.  looks like some type of overflow on the count.




On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:21:55 -0700
Roger Pryor <rjpryor@unix.infoserve.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:06:52 -0500
> Shahid I Malik <smalik@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > i have 5 newsgroups subscribed.  there are three columns in the window
> > showing NEW UNREAD and #.  whenever it gets new messages, it throws in
> > what seem to be bogus numbers for two of the newsgroups.  like i will
> > just have "mark read all" to all five groups, and in five minutes it
> > will auto check them, and for two of them for NEW colum it will put 765,
> > then for UNREAD it will put -15765, and for # column it will put -15765
> > as well.  
> > 
> > anyone else encounter these problems?  any help would be appreciated,
> > thanks..
> > 
> 
> I have seen the exact same thing for the set of newsgroups that
> I read.  I have seen this behaviour before, but it either went away
> or View->Update Summary (which takes a long time) in each newsgroup
> will fix it.  I *suspect* it is a number size boundary problem.
> 
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