Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto

From	Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-09-26 20:37 +0100
Message-ID	<52d568646cbbailey@argonet.co.uk> (permalink)
References	<52d5620b6edhwild@talktalk.net> <52d564062ealan_calder@o2.co.uk>
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In article <52d564062ealan_calder@o2.co.uk>, Alan Calder
<alan_calder@o2.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <52d5620b6edhwild@talktalk.net>, David H Wild
>    <dhwild@talktalk.net> wrote:
> > In the last few days I have been finding that, when I have read all
> > the postings in the "Acorn" bo, Pluto tells me that I have some unread
> > items in Comp.sys.acorn.misc. Opening up the group doesn't show any
> > unread items - so I have selected the group and set it to "read".

> > The thing is I have had to do it more than once, but only ever for
> > this group. Has anyone an idea about what is happening?

> Are you absolutely sure there are no unread items?  Forgive me if I'm
> suggesting something you've already done but have you tried sorting the
> box bt Status, which puts unread items at the top?  Sometimes items
> arrive with a wildly wrong date set and can hide themselves way down the
> list. Admittedly this seems more an issue with emails than news posts
> but just in case!

An entirely reasonable suggestion. I have met that phenomena fairly often
and it is fairly obvious how to deal with it. In this case it isn't like
that. Though News In shows an unread article there is no unread article
within comp.sys.acorn.misc to account for the unread article indication.

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Spurious "unread" items in Pluto David H Wild <dhwild@talktalk.net> - 2012-09-26 19:28 +0100
  Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-26 19:50 +0100
    Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-09-26 20:37 +0100
      Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 14:45 +0100
        Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-09-27 16:19 +0100
          Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto JTM <usenetbin@free.fr> - 2012-09-27 19:55 +0100
        Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto "Rob Hemmings (news2)" <robnews@rgvk.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 16:29 +0100
          Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-09-27 17:32 +0100
            Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-27 21:12 +0100
              Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto "Rob Hemmings (news2)" <robnews@rgvk.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 21:35 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 21:47 +0100
            Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto "Rob Hemmings (news2)" <robnews@rgvk.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 21:33 +0100
          Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-27 17:29 +0100
            Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto JTM <usenetbin@free.fr> - 2012-09-27 19:58 +0100
      Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 09:27 +0100
        Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-10-02 10:29 +0100
          Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 12:20 +0100
            Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> - 2012-10-02 13:11 +0100
              Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 17:21 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 21:17 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 23:00 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-03 06:05 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-03 09:07 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-03 10:01 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-10-03 10:20 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-03 12:10 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-04 09:13 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-10-03 10:26 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-10-03 14:15 +0100
                Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-10-03 07:49 +0100
  Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-09-26 20:09 +0100
  Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto JTM <usenetbin@free.fr> - 2012-09-26 20:38 +0100
  Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-09-27 00:03 +0100
  Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-09-27 09:04 +0100
  Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-09-27 21:53 +0100
    Re: Spurious "unread" items in Pluto David H Wild <dhwild@talktalk.net> - 2012-09-28 15:25 +0100

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