diff -u -r -N yasuck-0.1.0.orig/docs/ChangeLog yasuck-0.1.0/docs/ChangeLog
--- yasuck-0.1.0.orig/docs/ChangeLog	2005-10-16 18:18:15.000000000 -0500
+++ yasuck-0.1.0/docs/ChangeLog	2005-10-16 18:56:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@
 
 *yasuck-0.1.0 (08 Oct 2005)
 
+  16 Oct 2005; Mike Green <mikey at badpenguins dot com> docs/ChangeLog,
+  includes/app.functions.php, patch-0.1.0-02:
+
+  Added hack to determine high message id when the message list is
+  broken.  If the message list cannot be downloaded, fall back to
+  retrieving the last high message and parse the last msg id from it.
+  Removed extraneous "f" from app.functions.php, added some debugging
+  messages.
+
   08 Oct 2005; Mike Green <mikey at badpenguins dot com> docs/ChangeLog,
   includes/app.functions.php, patch-0.1.0-01:
 
diff -u -r -N yasuck-0.1.0.orig/includes/app.functions.php yasuck-0.1.0/includes/app.functions.php
--- yasuck-0.1.0.orig/includes/app.functions.php	2005-10-16 18:18:15.000000000 -0500
+++ yasuck-0.1.0/includes/app.functions.php	2005-10-16 18:49:48.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-f<?
+<?
 /*****************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c)2004 badpenguins.com                                         *
  * Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2          *
@@ -1019,10 +1019,14 @@
 	return false;
 	}
 
-if (!$page = retrieveList($board_name)) { return false; }
+if (!$page = retrieveList($board_name)) {
+	echo "ERROR: retrieveList()\n";
+	return false;
+	}
 
 $board_id = parseBoardId($page);
 if ($board_id === false or !is_numeric($board_id)) {
+	echo "ERROR: cannot parse board id\n";
 	return false;
 	}
 $ticker_id = parseTickerId($page);
@@ -3069,8 +3073,24 @@
 		}
 	$end = parseHighMessage($page);
 	if (!is_numeric($end)) {
-		echo "ABORT: cannot determine high message number.\n";
-		return false;
+		//
+		// Every once in a while, yahoo breaks, the message list
+		// cannot be retrieved.  As a last ditch effort, attempt
+		// to retrieve the last message and determine the high
+		// message number from it.
+		//
+		echo "WARNING: cannot determine high message id, trying alternative "
+		. "approach.\n";
+		$last_msg_id = $info_ar['high_msg'];
+		if (!$page = retrieveMsg($board_id,$ticker_id,$last_msg_id)) {
+			echo "ABORT: cannot determine high message number.\n";
+			return false;
+			}
+		$end = parseHighMessage($page);
+		if (!is_numeric($end)) {
+			echo "ABORT: cannot determine high message number.\n";
+			return false;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 if ($start > $end) {