Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon May 09 2022 06:40 pm

On 09 May 22  18:20:00, Dumas Walker said the following to Nick Andre:

DW> Although I never quite got it working, I was also working on a mod that
DW> would help me not pull thousands of messages from the server when the news
DW> service my ISP had contracted out to mysteriously reset their message
DW> pointers.  That was common enough to cause problems.

Which service was this? I had the exact same problem a few years ago with
Usenetdemon. Just up and reset all the pointers for some inexplicable reason.

DW> My ISP stopped offering a news server years ago, so the code (and the
DW> numbering issue) became obsolete.

I have the C source code for Vsoup95/NT. I was going to fix a few quirky
little things wrong with it but no longer have the time.

Nick

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