On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:50:01 +0200, Tanimara <Tanimara@The.Lost.Helm>
wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:04:01 +0100, ruby <ruby@tuesday.com> wrote:
>
>>I've just clicked as to why I am not picking up robo@Cock's posts and
>>why I picked up a couple of T-Bob's posts recently using Agent.
>>
>>My copy of Agent is loading posts from 2008 as the latest posts in
>>alt.binaries.erotica - no other groups are affected this way. I have
>>Agent on two machines and both copies of Agent are loading 2008 posts
>>into abe.
>>
>>And I have two Easynews servers and an Astraweb server and it happens
>>on all three.
>>
>>Is anyone else experiencing this?
>>
>>Nice to get some feedback.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Riby
>
>
>Hey Ruby,
>
>The article count in ab.erotica exceeded 4G articles just recently.
>Due to its 32 bit architecture Agent 6 (and any other 32 bit news
>reader) can only handle up to 4G (4.294.967.296) articles per
>newsgroup. Current count in ab.erotica is 4.527.251.689 ... and
>counting.
>
>Explanation:
>So if Agent 6 wants to retrieve the article with the number
>4.527.251.689, it actually gets 4.527.251.689 - 4.294.967.296 =
>232.284.393. The article with that number was posted way back in the
>past. That's why you pull headers from 2008 :-)
>
>Solution:
>You will have to to use a 64 bit news reader.
>Agent supports 64 bit with version 7 and up.
>
>Tanimara
Tanimara
Many thanks. $19 isn't too much to upgrade to Agent 8.
Neither Agent or Easynews support came up with that as an explanation.
I'll pass it on to them.
Good to see you're still posting to abns from time to time.
Thanks again
Ruby
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