Re: Posting with SNAP

[spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen)]

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

> I found the solution to downloading all the headers-- I had to mark the
> group as read.

Usenet servers cannot know what messages you have read, so any reader
has to do that itself. It describes in the SNAP manual how SNAP will use
the highest message number last read to get the next set of headers.

>  I think that the time problem was caused by the TimeZone CDev. I had the
> setting for -6 hours, and I had to set the IIgs clock 6 hours ahead to get
> accurate time. I don't think that was a coincidence.

If you still think there is a problem, send me an email to the bug
reporting address in the SNAP manual. Send me the log entry showing the
message you sent, the time zone you had set in the TimeZone CDev, and
the time your IIgs clock said when you sent it.

>Why does SNAP even set a Date header
> line? The server usually provides it automatically.

NNTP or Usenet messages, are required to have a Date field in the
header, showing when the message was first sent. Unlike emails, the
servers do not add a time to the message.

Cheers - Ewen