thanks, that really help sort it out in my mind.

Couple of questions on this:

Say you have 1,2,3,4 of a thread which are in the thread and then 5 is rejected for spam, will 6, 7, 8 etc still go into the thread or will they never make it because 5 is missing?

The reason i ask is i know there are some threads that in the newgroup that only have a few posts in them on my forum, and they havn't been updated to it in the forum and wondering if this is perhaps why.



Another problem:

example

http://x67.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN...&back=clarinet

i hope that url works from deja.
It is the thread stargate DVDs in alt.tv.stargate-sg1
and is a full thread.

Ok, in my forum i have the thread:
http://www.ascifi.net/forums/showthr...p?threadid=656

but only the first two posts. And not really the first two either:

the first post is fine
the second post is only the quote of the first post. All the origina content is missing
None of the other 10 or so posts are there.

now in the newgroup, on the server spamkillers.newsfeeds.com it looks exactly the same as on deja, there definitely, to my mind seems something not working here because:

- it is a new thread, with no posts missing
- the newgroup has all the posts and threads in an identical fassion to deja.com's listing
- the thread is on the forum and one other post but that post appears corrupted.


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on this point, i realise that the mod is not supported or anything and you have already spent loads of time trying to help me, i can get you access to my sql database for this forum if you want etc but completly understand if you don't have time not a problem....

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Date sorting.

i think your old method of adding a few mins would be better, in my opinion the ordering of a thread is more important than knowing when the post was posted (especially when it might be wrong anyway). It would perhaps be possible to have another field for "date2" or something and somehow add that in somewhere at the bottom like

"This newsgroup reported this post was posted at blah" not that important really, i think ordering is more important.