Re: [boost] Re: Proper threading (Was: Formal review of "Output Forma tters" library beginstoday )

From: Brian Riis (brian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-04 09:51:02

Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Brian Riis wrote:
> 
>> Reece Dunn wrote:
>>
>>> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Stefan Slapeta" <stefan_nospam__at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
>>>> news:cjkj7t$a8u$2_at_sea.gmane.org...
> 
>  >>>
> 
>>>> Last time I used Mozilla for reading newsgroups (over a year ago)
>>>> if found that it would frequently report a particular numbers of
>>>> messages as unread (the number would appear in parantheses after
>>>> the newsgroup name) but no messages in my inbox would by marked as
>>>> unread. I could never tell whether the reported number of unread
>>>> messages was an error, or if there really were some unread messages
>>>> getting lost. So I switched to Outlook.
>>>>
>>>> Does Thunderbird use the same code as the Mozilla browser's news
>>>> and email client? If so, do you know if this problem has been
>>>> fixed?
>>>
>>>
>>> I am not sure about the code base it uses, but it appears to report
>>> the correct number of messages in the Inbox (and the subfolders I
>>> have created for the various Boost threads, using the Filters feature
>>> which rocks!) So maybe they have fixed the problem you experienced
>>> :).
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, no. I've experienced the exact same problem with
>> ThunderBird 0.8. In the end, the only resolution was to resubscribe to
>> the newsgroup. Don't know how the problem started, but apparently it's
>> not a new thing.
> 
> 
> You can fix this by editing the news rc file in the thunderbird folder. 
> It contains lines like for example:
> 
> gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel: 
> 1-111178,111273,111274,111276,111279,111291,111357
> 
> Just canchge this to
> 
> gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel: 1-111357
> 
> and it behaves normally again. By doing so, you of course also mark all 
> messages as read, but its better than resubscribing if you have a big 
> local archive. The fix also works for Mozilla.

Fix? Seems more like a hack to me... :) But thanks a lot for the tip. I 
*did*, in fact, lose a rather large local archive when I resubscribed, 
so this'll be a life-saver, if it happens again.

> 
> HTH, Markus

It will!

-- 
  /Brian Riis