Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
* Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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.
-- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services
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