[Gilby]

Originally posted by fastforward
I don't see how that can be possible. It can't insert an article if the msgid already exists. It's obviously a direct result of the bug above. (Or is that your point?)

That's the point... one of the results of this bug.

What are you trying to say? What's wrong with the programming style? eh?!

I wouldn't say there is anything wrong.... just not a style that I can follow very well (with those variable variables and such). I am not all that good at Perl.

This is the way I expected it to work. That doesn't seem to be the case though. I couldn't get it to return anything. It may be a newsserver issue but even CPAN makes no mention of a return value. If you can confirm it returns the msgid, let me know. it would make things a lot easier and more reliable.

I saw it on a page from a google search. I don't know which module it was (I've seen both News::NNTPClient and Net::NNTP which apear to have the same functions). On CPAN, neither of these modules mention anything about returning the message-id.

Although you get a few orhans in every newsgroup, it's really only a big problem with the mailing archives. Any ideas?

I did a lot of manual insertion to minimize how many articles were in the usenet_article table, then when I gave up for the itme being on inserting those posts, I renamed the table and created a blank one. Though that's just a temporary fix. Another idea is when not importing old archives, to limit the subjects it can match to those threads that have posts from the last 30 days in them. Maybe even make another table with just the subjects and refs of the threads from the last 30 days.