NNTP Question

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Bishop

I'm using VB.NET with Sockets to read newsgroup content. I seem to have
everything working good but when I read the messages in the newsgroup I
don't seem to get the most recent messages. I issue the "Group" command
which gives me the oldes and newest message number and I'm able to loop
through and retrieve all of them but my in Outlook Express I can find new
messages that my application didn't download. Any thoughts on what I might
be missing?
 
Thanks for the info and link. Looking at this closer, I think that the
MessageNumber (not Message ID) may not always be consistant. For example
when I query with the group command, it would respond with the start and
finish MessageNumbers such as:
First 419520
Last 439948

When I loop through using the Article command, it don't always get a
response for every message (more so on the larger groups with lots of
messages) so I continue to loop through until I've retireved all of them.
It seems that MessageNumber 419640 (for example) may get a different message
when I query the server for it at different times.
 
OK, my bad, I had set a timeout and I think what was happening is I was
reading data from a previous write. Seems to be working good now.
 
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