walt posted on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:59:38 -0700 as excerpted: > On 04/28/2010 01:05 PM, Gerald Livingston wrote: >> Using a Debian install of Pan 0.132 >> >> I mostly read a few text groups so I'm not all that worried about the >> various patches yet. >> >> But, now I am doing some testing of my GigaNews feed. Specifically the >> claim of 600+ days of binary retention. > >> And, I can only retrieve articles back as far as September 1st 2009. >> Everything before that is listed as unavailable/incomplete. >> >> Are there limits in Pan that would cause this or do I need to poke at >> GigaNews a bit? > > I'm guessing that GigaNews has switched to 64-bit article numbers to > support that much retention. If I'm right, then you will need at least > that one patch, so you may as well get the benefit of all the other > patches at the same time.
Seconded. I'm not a giganews user, but IIRC, they were the ones pushing the change, so it's not surprising to me at all that they'd have problems without it. >From what I've read here, I believe they have a FAQ on it, somewhere. You might want to check that and see exactly what the deal is, which groups it's likely to apply too, etc. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
