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Originally posted by Dioxin
thanx for your answer, fastforward

i have another one:

there are still many many threads awaiting for manual post insertion. is this normal? how can i avoid this?

what's the meaning of orphan? i'am a german guy and i don't understand this option in control panel. should i set it to 5 or a higher level.

thanx,

regards, dioxin

This question comes up time after time. Here are the reasons:

Posts are inserted into the forums if and only when these two conditions are true:

1. a post with a msgid that appears in the list of references in the header of the new article is already in the forum.
2. the ord column of the new article is greater than or equal to the ord column of the existing post in the forum.

There are various reasons why you may have orphan replies with no where to go:

• the thread starter has already been expired from the news server and it was never retrieved.
• the thread starter has already been expired from your forums based on your control panel settings.
• the thread starter was rejected by your news server due to spam
• the thread starter was rejected by your spam filters
• the thread starter was rejected due to exceeding the maximum message length you have set.

The orphan setting is simply there to delete these orhan records from the usenet_article table. If the post to which the article replies has not appeared after 2 days, you can pretty much guarantee it's never going to arrive. The only reason it is configurable is to allow a full initial historical news pull that may go back several months.