Re: [boost] Question regarding logging, persistence, threadcommunication, network messaging and async frameworks

From: Scott Woods (scott.suzuki_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-27 16:06:57

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Hill" <eric_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] Question regarding logging, 
persistence,threadcommunication, network messaging and async frameworks

>> Apologies to other list members. I am experiencing very odd mail service
>> that
>> means I am not receiving messages on the Boost list sent by myself.
>
> I see you're using Outlook Express.  This symptom is not your news server,
> but rather the flawed Outlook Express client.  The bug in question is how
> OE deals with the sequence ID from the news server.  If you post a message
> to a newsgroup, the server will ACK the request, but queue the message for
> posting.  If you check for new headers before the server has serviced the
> post, OE will blindly ignore that message.  If you wait a few minutes (for
> the server to complete the post) then OE will happily show your post
> inline as expected.  It seems to be a bug in the internal database engine.

Thanks Eric. Strange that its only done this after several years membership.
But cant expect a bug to behave.