Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2024 4:18 pmhttps://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/down ... 3-5855.exe
It's mostly the same as RC2 except with the help of some early testers I was able to figure out why RC2 would crash from time to time.
One change I haven't talked about in 6.91 is it outright drops posts that either can't be turned into files or look like files that can never be assembled. In some groups, a majority of posts are completely unusable unless you have the NZB. They can't even form files to list.
A.B.NZB for instance is 99% unusable posts. You'll see it in the logs where Newsbin now logs how many posts are read in and how many are rejected as "not files". If you keep an eye on it, you might see that some of the groups that used to be productive now have nothing. It's not that nothing is posted to them necessarily but that the posts aren't usable by conventional readers. You might consider turning off header downloads for these groups to save bandwidth. In this way you can keep your historical group records.
I've also noticed that not all files are using proper post counters to indicate position of the post in the file but, they are including this information in the message-id. Newsbin now follows the Message-Id based numbering over the subject based if both are present.
It's mostly the same as RC2 except with the help of some early testers I was able to figure out why RC2 would crash from time to time.
One change I haven't talked about in 6.91 is it outright drops posts that either can't be turned into files or look like files that can never be assembled. In some groups, a majority of posts are completely unusable unless you have the NZB. They can't even form files to list.
A.B.NZB for instance is 99% unusable posts. You'll see it in the logs where Newsbin now logs how many posts are read in and how many are rejected as "not files". If you keep an eye on it, you might see that some of the groups that used to be productive now have nothing. It's not that nothing is posted to them necessarily but that the posts aren't usable by conventional readers. You might consider turning off header downloads for these groups to save bandwidth. In this way you can keep your historical group records.
I've also noticed that not all files are using proper post counters to indicate position of the post in the file but, they are including this information in the message-id. Newsbin now follows the Message-Id based numbering over the subject based if both are present.