[Mailman-Users] NNTP Mass catch up

[Thufir]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:01:45 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote:

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>>only I don't see any such articles actually in the list.
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> You have it backwards. Mass catchup means ignore all messages currently
> on the news server and start gatwaying to the list with the next news
> message to arrive.
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> If you wanted to gateway all the existing news server messages to the
> list, you should not have done a mass catchup and if everything was
> configured OK, the messages would have been gated to the list the first
> time cron/gate_news ran.

Ok, the messages are there now.  I don't know why it was such a struggle 
to setup for me, in retrospect that's not too bad.

thanks for the help :)


-Thufir