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  Posting with SNAP dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) - 2011-04-14 15:12 +0000
    Re: Posting with SNAP Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2011-04-17 16:49 -0500
      Re: Posting with SNAP dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) - 2011-04-17 21:55 +0000
        Re: Posting with SNAP spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen) - 2011-04-18 08:06 +0100
          Re: Posting with SNAP dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) - 2011-04-18 13:47 +0000
            Re: Posting with SNAP spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen) - 2011-04-19 07:43 +0100
            Testing SNAP again, was Re: Posting with SNAP dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) - 2011-05-03 21:35 +0000
              Re: Testing SNAP again, was Re: Posting with SNAP Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> - 2011-05-04 18:33 +0200
      Re: Posting with SNAP dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) - 2011-04-17 22:03 +0000
        Re: Posting with SNAP Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> - 2011-04-18 00:18 +0200
          Re: Posting with SNAP dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) - 2011-04-17 22:26 +0000

#875 — Posting with SNAP

Hey! I'm posting this message using SNAP!!

WOW. All I can say first: loading the newsgroup list is *not* fun.
Loooong wait for 2 MB to download into the IIgs. @_@

What are the specs?

Well, this is a rather "bare bones" IIgs:

- ROM 03
- 2.8 MHz
- Apple 1 MB expansion for 2 MB total RAM
- Uthernet card provides a 10 mbps Ethernet interface
- FocusDrive with CF adapter for 128 MB of storage

And of course, Marinetti 3.0

I'm not sure how often I will use this GS to read news, but at least I can
say that I've done it-- and posted!

Anyone else?

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#876

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
> Hey! I'm posting this message using SNAP!!
> 
> WOW. All I can say first: loading the newsgroup list is *not* fun.
> Loooong wait for 2 MB to download into the IIgs. @_@
> 
> What are the specs?
> 
> Well, this is a rather "bare bones" IIgs:
> 
> - ROM 03
> - 2.8 MHz
> - Apple 1 MB expansion for 2 MB total RAM
> - Uthernet card provides a 10 mbps Ethernet interface
> - FocusDrive with CF adapter for 128 MB of storage
> 
> And of course, Marinetti 3.0
> 
> I'm not sure how often I will use this GS to read news, but at least I can
> say that I've done it-- and posted!
> 
> Anyone else?

Now that you've got the header backlog, it should be much faster in the
future.  ;-)

-michael  -  NadaNet 3.1:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon

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#877

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
> Now that you've got the header backlog, it should be much faster in the
> future.  ;-)
> 

Unless there's a setting that I don't know about, it appears to be
downloading the headers every single time that I view the group.

Also, the Date header line when posting is completely messed up. I had to
set the IIgs clock 3 days in the future and adjust the time to be 6 hours
later.

(posting from my usual newsreader this time)

-- 
Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
Macintosh computing.
http://macgui.com/vault/

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#884

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

> Unless there's a setting that I don't know about, it appears to be
> downloading the headers every single time that I view the group.
> 
> Also, the Date header line when posting is completely messed up. I had to
> set the IIgs clock 3 days in the future and adjust the time to be 6 hours
> later.

Since its first release, these are the first bug reports I have actually
had about SNAP! I have seen some odd things happen myself, and had it on
my radar to take a look at fixing them at some point, but the NiftySpell
SAM2 updates have taken priority recently.

Please email me with exact details of what is not working for you, and I
shall see what I can do when I get some time. You will find my contact
details at the end of the SNAP manual.

Cheers - Ewen 

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#889

Ewen wrote:
> D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
> 
>> Unless there's a setting that I don't know about, it appears to be
>> downloading the headers every single time that I view the group.
>> 
>> Also, the Date header line when posting is completely messed up. I had to
>> set the IIgs clock 3 days in the future and adjust the time to be 6 hours
>> later.
> 
> Since its first release, these are the first bug reports I have actually
> had about SNAP! I have seen some odd things happen myself, and had it on
> my radar to take a look at fixing them at some point, but the NiftySpell
> SAM2 updates have taken priority recently.
> 
> Please email me with exact details of what is not working for you, and I
> shall see what I can do when I get some time. You will find my contact
> details at the end of the SNAP manual.
> 
> Cheers - Ewen
>

I found the solution to downloading all the headers-- I had to mark the
group as read.

I think that the time problem was caused by the TimeZone CDev. I had the
setting for -6 hours, and I had to set the IIgs clock 6 hours ahead to get
accurate time. I don't think that was a coincidence.

But for the date problem, I don't know. It thought that it was the 14th of
April, when it was really the 17th. Why does SNAP even set a Date header
line? The server usually provides it automatically.

-- 
Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
Macintosh computing.
http://macgui.com/vault/

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#903

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

> I found the solution to downloading all the headers-- I had to mark the
> group as read.

Usenet servers cannot know what messages you have read, so any reader
has to do that itself. It describes in the SNAP manual how SNAP will use
the highest message number last read to get the next set of headers.

>  I think that the time problem was caused by the TimeZone CDev. I had the
> setting for -6 hours, and I had to set the IIgs clock 6 hours ahead to get
> accurate time. I don't think that was a coincidence.

If you still think there is a problem, send me an email to the bug
reporting address in the SNAP manual. Send me the log entry showing the
message you sent, the time zone you had set in the TimeZone CDev, and
the time your IIgs clock said when you sent it.

>Why does SNAP even set a Date header
> line? The server usually provides it automatically.

NNTP or Usenet messages, are required to have a Date field in the
header, showing when the message was first sent. Unlike emails, the
servers do not add a time to the message.

Cheers - Ewen

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#1174 — Testing SNAP again, was Re: Posting with SNAP

> Ewen wrote:
> > D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Unless there's a setting that I don't know about, it appears to be
> >> downloading the headers every single time that I view the group.
> >> 
> >> Also, the Date header line when posting is completely messed up. I
> had to
> >> set the IIgs clock 3 days in the future and adjust the time to be 6
> hours
> >> later.
> > 
> > Since its first release, these are the first bug reports I have
> actually
> > had about SNAP! I have seen some odd things happen myself, and had it
> on

Time to see if the date is correct this time around. Current date for me should be 03 May 2011 at 3:35 PM

-- 
Posting using SNAP on the IIgs

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#1190 — Re: Testing SNAP again, was Re: Posting with SNAP

On 05/03/2011 11:35 PM, D Finnigan wrote:

> Time to see if the date is correct this time around. Current date for me should be 03 May 2011 at 3:35 PM

I get NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 20:35:47 +0000 (UTC) for your post.

20:35 is 8:35 PM, so if you're in UTC-5 it is correct.

-- 
Linards Ticmanis

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#878

"mjmahon@aol.com" wrote:

> D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
> > Hey! I'm posting this message using SNAP!!
> > 
> > WOW. All I can say first: loading the newsgroup list is *not* fun.
> > Loooong wait for 2 MB to download into the IIgs. @_@
> > 
> > What are the specs?
> > 
> > Well, this is a rather "bare bones" IIgs:
> > 
> > - ROM 03
> > - 2.8 MHz
> > - Apple 1 MB expansion for 2 MB total RAM
> > - Uthernet card provides a 10 mbps Ethernet interface
> > - FocusDrive with CF adapter for 128 MB of storage
> > 
> > And of course, Marinetti 3.0
> > 
> > I'm not sure how often I will use this GS to read news, but at least I
> can
> > say that I've done it-- and posted!
> > 
> > Anyone else?
> 
> Now that you've got the header backlog, it should be much faster in the
> future.  ;-)
> 
> -michael  -  NadaNet 3.1:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon


And here's a test followup ... let's see if I got the date right.

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#879

On 04/18/2011 12:03 AM, D Finnigan wrote:

> And here's a test followup ... let's see if I got the date right.

This message got through to my news server, but the thread starting
message seemingly didn't.

-- 
Linards Ticmanis

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#880

"ticmanis@gmx.de" wrote:

> On 04/18/2011 12:03 AM, D Finnigan wrote:
> 
> > And here's a test followup ... let's see if I got the date right.
> 
> This message got through to my news server, but the thread starting
> message seemingly didn't.

Yes, that would be because your server rejected an article posted 3 days in the past. :-)

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