Re: [Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

[Steven D'Aprano]

Graham Lawrence wrote:
> I click the post header in the top right pane, and sometimes the associated
> text appears in the bottom right pane, and sometimes it doesn't.  When it
> doesn't, I notice that an aqua icon in its header line is absent, which
> icon's presence means the article has been cached.  So I cache the post with
> the right click menu, and nothing happens, no icon appears in its header
> line, and still no text.
>
> How do I view such posts, and why don't they cache?  BTW they are not empty
> posts, their header line declares they contain so many lines of text.  Thank
> you in advance for your help.


I believe you may be seeing a bug in some posts hosted by Astraweb. 
There has been a LOT of discussion on that over the last few months. 
Please see these threads, and see if they describe what you are 
experiencing:

First report:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-06/msg00091.html

Someone else sees the same problem:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-08/msg00000.html

Problem finally diagnosed:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-08/msg00037.html

Reported to Astraweb:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-08/msg00030.html




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Steven