kgroneman wrote:
something!
Well that’s just great 
I changed the NNTP server name from forums.opensuse.org to nntp.opensuse.org
It went away for a LONG while and then came back with EVERY message
marked as unread (i.e. a few million) and I was no longer able to post.
So I switched the server name back to forums.opensuse.org and now:
- I still have millions of unread messages
- I can post again, but to the OP rather than the newsgroup, although I
can manually add the newsgroup as you can see
- It no longer quotes the text of the original, just the OP’s nick.
So the new system is unusable for me and the old system is now partly
broken. I don’t expect much help with fixing my system, since I’m using
an old Thunderbird that has worked well for years. But I would be
interested to know what experiences others are having, and I would like
to to find some fix that will make the system still work after March 31.
Cheers, Dave
Dave Howorth wrote:
> So I switched the server name back to forums.opensuse.org and now:
> - I still have millions of unread messages
> - I can post again, but to the OP rather than the newsgroup, although I
> can manually add the newsgroup as you can see
> - It no longer quotes the text of the original, just the OP’s nick.
>
> So the new system is unusable for me and the old system is now partly
> broken. I don’t expect much help with fixing my system, since I’m using
> an old Thunderbird that has worked well for years. But I would be
> interested to know what experiences others are having, and I would like
> to to find some fix that will make the system still work after March 31.
Update:
-
I marked all the messages as read and apart from
opensuse.org.feedback.forums.comments-suggestions all is well. That
forum claims to have 16 unread messages every time I poll the server,
but they disappear when I look at the forum (usually means they were
spam, but they don’t normally keep coming back)
-
Posting is back to normal
-
Quoting are back to normal
So forums.opensuse.org is pretty much back to working as it did. What is
different about nntp.opensuse.org?
On 2013-03-15 12:17, Dave Howorth wrote:
> It went away for a LONG while and then came back with EVERY message
> marked as unread (i.e. a few million)
This did not happen to me because I use leafnode as intermediary server.
As far as thunderbird thinks, it is the same exact server, so the list
of “read” posts has not changed.
Your experience will probably happen to everybody else.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:05:37 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> So forums.opensuse.org is pretty much back to working as it did. What is
> different about nntp.opensuse.org?
The IP address and that it’s not behind an A10 appliance.
It’s physically the same hardware.
Jim
–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:05:37 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
>
>> So forums.opensuse.org is pretty much back to working as it did. What is
>> different about nntp.opensuse.org?
>
> The IP address and that it’s not behind an A10 appliance.
>
> It’s physically the same hardware.
Hmm, the mystery deepens, but in a nice way. I just changed the name of
the server to nntp again and this time everything worked as expected. So
hopefully I’m fixed up now. I have no idea what’s different this time.
Dave Howorth wrote:
> kgroneman wrote:
>
> something!
>
>
> Well that’s just great
>
> I changed the NNTP server name from forums.opensuse.org to
> nntp.opensuse.org
>
> It went away for a LONG while and then came back with EVERY message
> marked as unread (i.e. a few million) and I was no longer able to
> post.
>
> So I switched the server name back to forums.opensuse.org and now:
> - I still have millions of unread messages
> - I can post again, but to the OP rather than the newsgroup, although
> I
> can manually add the newsgroup as you can see
> - It no longer quotes the text of the original, just the OP’s nick.
>
> So the new system is unusable for me and the old system is now partly
> broken. I don’t expect much help with fixing my system, since I’m
> using an old Thunderbird that has worked well for years. But I would
> be interested to know what experiences others are having, and I would
> like to to find some fix that will make the system still work after
> March 31.
>
> Cheers, Dave
I just changed to nntp.opensuse.org on my 12.2 system, Refreshed the
newsgroup and only got 12 new message, rest had been downloaded earlier.
Will try on 12.3 later.
Russ
openSUSE 12.2(Linux 3.4.28-2.20-desktop x86_64)|KDE 4.10.1
“release 552”|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce
8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.32)
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:17:00 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> kgroneman wrote:
>
> something!
>
>
> Well that’s just great
>
> I changed the NNTP server name from forums.opensuse.org to
> nntp.opensuse.org
>
> It went away for a LONG while and then came back with EVERY message
> marked as unread (i.e. a few million) and I was no longer able to post.
>
> So I switched the server name back to forums.opensuse.org and now:
> - I still have millions of unread messages - I can post again, but to
> the OP rather than the newsgroup, although I
> can manually add the newsgroup as you can see
> - It no longer quotes the text of the original, just the OP’s nick.
>
> So the new system is unusable for me and the old system is now partly
> broken. I don’t expect much help with fixing my system, since I’m using
> an old Thunderbird that has worked well for years. But I would be
> interested to know what experiences others are having, and I would like
> to to find some fix that will make the system still work after March 31.
As a point of comparison, I use Pan here, and just switched the servers
and restarted the application.
Seems to have worked fine here.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
On 2013-03-22, Jim Henderson <hendersj@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:17:00 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> As a point of comparison, I use Pan here, and just switched the servers
> and restarted the application.
>
> Seems to have worked fine here.
>
> Jim
… for what it’s worth for slrn users, I must say the transition from forums.opensuse.org to nntp.opensuse.org went
seamlessly just by changing the relevant line in ~/.bashrc.