[Alpine-info] Can We Talk About Binary News-Groups Again?

[Chime Hart]

Well, since trn seems to mysteriously bomb out on certain articles, I thought I 
would again try alpine. So I set a range of 9999. In another binary group, I 
was able to export groups of 177 messages to a file which I would decode later. 
If I tried exporting either more than 200 messages or exported maybe 3 groups 
of messages in 1 session, it would close the mailbox with an access error. So 
after finishing that group, I went on to alt.binaries.e-books.flood. There 
actually are 66thousand articles I would like to grab, but 9999 is the most I 
can set a range. Well, in this group, no matter how small an amount of articles 
I export, I only capture a name, date, and poster, but not any contents. I've 
never seen this behavior as I've been working with news-groups since 1997.
Are their ways of setting ranges for other than a most recent group of 
articles? Thanks in advance
Chime