203405 - Mark as read on newsgroup name doesn't stick.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189277

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[David G King]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030425
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030425

If I right-click on a newsgroup that I've just subscribed to, and select Mark As
Read, the message count becomes blank. If I then click on the arrow next to the
server name to collapse the list of newsgroups, and then click on it again, the
newsgroup that I just marked as read comes back as it was just after I
subscribed to it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to a new newsgroup
2. Right-click on newsgroup name and select Mark As Read
3. Click on arrow next to news server twice

Actual Results:  
News group came back as if I hadn't marked it as read.

Expected Results:  
Newsgroup should have zero messages (or maybe a few if it's a high volume news
group).

I do not left-click on the newsgroup name first to download headers. I think
this is the crux of the problem as after downloading headers the problem doesn't
exist.

Also, I wonder how often this would happen in real life? Someone subscribing to
a newsgroup and then marking it all as read.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189277 ***

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup