no new post received for the last 2-3 weeks?

Archived from groups: alt.games.civ3 (More info?)

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Archived from groups: alt.games.civ3 (More info?)

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:39:18 +1200, Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address>
wrote:

>In article <20050602092705.A65E.PLSEMAIL@yahoo.com>, plsemail@yahoo.com
>says...
>>
>
>Are you, by any chance, wondering out loud if there has been any traffic
>in this group?
>
>If so, you can always do two things: you can use Google - groups -
>advanced search - 'show only messages from these groups' and look.
>
>Once you have confirmed that there were messages posted, you can try to
>unsubscribe the group in your newsreader, and then re-subscribe it.
>It sometimes happens that newsservers renumber/reindex the messages in a
>group and then, because the new numbers are lower than the old ones,
>your client will not download/show any new messages in that group.
>
>There has been a slow but steady amount of traffic in alt.games.civ3
>over the last weeks, b.t.w.
>
>cheers, -Peter

There is usually a "Get All Headers" near the "Get New Headers". That
should also fix the indexing problem and keep your existing messages.