Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 10/04/47 11:05

* 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.

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