Tanimara <Tanimara@The.Lost.Helm> wrote in
news:23o7tbdfaos6cdu4tgt33dgh0ijiuv99m2@4ax.com:
> 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
wow. what a great explanation
thanks
d.w?
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