[george_proost]

I needed to do this to the code to be able to understand it ..
it sorts out the counting problem
(fetchlimit=1 also works)
... the console output I added '+1' text to confirm...and now reads
Fetching headers of articles 46866+1 to 46915...

I still get NO threads populated
the above '+1' issue needs to be resolved.

post_outgoing_t($c,\$newsgroup);

my ($svrfirstmsg,$svrlastmsg,$tmp) = $c->group($newsgroup->{newsgroup});

if ($newsgroup->{lastmsg} eq 0) { 
   $newsgroup->{lastmsg} = $svrfirstmsg; }

elsif ($newsgroup->{lastmsg} > $svrlastmsg) {
   $newsgroup->{lastmsg} = $svrlastmsg; }

$batch_end = $newsgroup->{lastmsg}+$config{batch_limit};
      
if ($batch_end > $svrlastmsg) {
   $batch_end = $svrlastmsg; }

console("Getting article batch from $newsgroup->{newsgroup}\n");
      
if ($svrlastmsg > $batch_end) .......

I'm off to bed