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Posted by Lester Caine on 10/04/96 11:05
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> * Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>:
>
>>Because of the problems working with the email version of the php lists,
>>I'm forced to use the newgroup interface.
>>Up until recently I could happily get up in the morning and 'Download
>>Now' in Mozilla so I can scan messages quickly locally.
>>Since xmas the 'Download Now' simply gets the first message and then
>>times out. It's working fine on Eclipse and Borland so it's not my end,
>>but now the only way to get the messages is one at a time.
>>
>>Is this something that has been changed at www.php.net? Can anything be
>>done about it? Why should offline working be such a problem?
>
> I reported a bug during the week after christmas -- the news server was
> down at the beginning of that week. Since then, it seems like the
> newsserver they're using isn't tuned to the load it receives -- I often
> find I lose my connection to it, or that when I initially try to
> connect, I can't. Just keep hitting the download button every so often,
> and you should get a full list at some point.
Sounds about right, but its quicker hitting every message rather than
waiting for the timeout on 'Download Now' ;) THAT actually seems to be
better than it was, before xmas I'd have the problems you describe every
three or four messages - but the download all worked - eventually.
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Lester Caine
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