Re: 'Blank' posts.

From	Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: 'Blank' posts.
Date	2012-09-21 15:08 +0100
Organization	Triffids Leg Press
Message-ID	<52d2b70baadave@triffid.co.uk> (permalink)
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In article <52d29bdecbdave@davenoise.co.uk>,
   Dave Plowman (News) <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <52d28acfd3spam.pling@btinternet.com>,
>    spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > In article <52d23df45fdave@davenoise.co.uk>,
> >    Dave Plowman (News) <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
> > > NewsHound was set to only use my current server - but
> > > Pluto may have just grabbed the first one.

> > Pluto stashes the information news and mail fetcher info when you run
> > the preferences setting. It would be useful if it was set to look at a
> > variable each time it was needed - it doesn't do that.

> > However, IIRC the info it stashes is only the details of which of
> > possibly many copies of PopStar and Newshound you want to use not what
> > those are set to fetch from.

> I wonder why it chose Pipex out of the three servers I have in
> NewsHound? That was my original one, though. But on deletion of that
> file(s) in Newshound, Pluto then used one of my current ones - with no
> further action from me. It's not as if Pipex was the first file in the
> folder - it was the last.

It doesn't matter what order the Server config files are in Newshound,
what matters is the order you have them listed in the Newshound icon bar
menu Configure > Choices window, "Fetch" radio button in the "Default
groupfile(s) writable.

I have "nin,cor,moz,mot" and that is the order Newshound cycles through
the fetches.

Dave

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Dave Triffid

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'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-19 13:29 +0100
  Re: 'Blank' posts. Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-09-19 13:45 +0100
  Re: 'Blank' posts. Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> - 2012-09-19 14:20 +0100
    Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-19 16:18 +0100
      Re: 'Blank' posts. Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> - 2012-09-19 17:12 +0100
  Re: 'Blank' posts. Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-19 18:01 +0100
  Re: 'Blank' posts. Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> - 2012-09-19 18:47 +0100
    Re: 'Blank' posts. Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-19 19:10 +0100
      Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 00:18 +0100
        Re: 'Blank' posts. spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-20 07:22 +0100
          Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 10:26 +0100
    Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 14:34 +0100
      Re: 'Blank' posts. Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-20 15:19 +0100
        Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 16:08 +0100
          Re: 'Blank' posts. Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 16:18 +0100
            Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 16:34 +0100
        Re: 'Blank' posts. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-09-20 16:31 +0100
          Re: 'Blank' posts. Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-20 17:42 +0100
  Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 17:05 +0100
    Re: 'Blank' posts. Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-20 17:46 +0100
      Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 19:06 +0100
        Re: 'Blank' posts. Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 21:27 +0100
          Re: 'Blank' posts. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-09-21 09:17 +0100
    Re: 'Blank' posts. spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-21 07:05 +0100
      Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-21 10:11 +0100
        Re: 'Blank' posts. Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-09-21 15:08 +0100
          Re: 'Blank' posts. "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-21 15:39 +0100

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