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server trouble :-(
When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these
messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days,
and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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Ray,
Actually no, what happened yesterday was definitely not a normal function of the ISP. As you point out, in a correctly functioning ISP, when the maximum is reached or when a certain amount of time has passed "the oldest go away from their server", but what happened to me yesterday was that the newest messages disappeared. One of the messages that disappeared was a message by molli in response to Diana's "Redland Loot". I can actually see it now in the archive at groups.google.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...n-iQ%404dv.net posted yesterday at 18:45), and the other message that has disappeared from my ISP's server is the fertilizing questions post (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...speer2.tds.net posted yesterday at 19:09) that you, Ray, responded to this morning. My ISP has your response, but they do not have the post with the question any more. The two posts disappeared within 4 hours after being posted. That is definitely not normal ISP behavior! Or shouldn't be anyway. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days, and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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server trouble :-(
You're right! That sure ain't normal.
-- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Ray, Actually no, what happened yesterday was definitely not a normal function of the ISP. As you point out, in a correctly functioning ISP, when the maximum is reached or when a certain amount of time has passed "the oldest go away from their server", but what happened to me yesterday was that the newest messages disappeared. One of the messages that disappeared was a message by molli in response to Diana's "Redland Loot". I can actually see it now in the archive at groups.google.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...n-iQ%404dv.net posted yesterday at 18:45), and the other message that has disappeared from my ISP's server is the fertilizing questions post (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...speer2.tds.net posted yesterday at 19:09) that you, Ray, responded to this morning. My ISP has your response, but they do not have the post with the question any more. The two posts disappeared within 4 hours after being posted. That is definitely not normal ISP behavior! Or shouldn't be anyway. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days, and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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Actually, I just found out that this was not server trouble nor ISP fault at
all, but a client side problem caused by Outlook Express (I will need to get a better news reader soon). My ISP (Verizon) was very helpful in establishing the cause of this problem, and pointing out to me how to correct this in Outlook Express. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... You're right! That sure ain't normal. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Ray, Actually no, what happened yesterday was definitely not a normal function of the ISP. As you point out, in a correctly functioning ISP, when the maximum is reached or when a certain amount of time has passed "the oldest go away from their server", but what happened to me yesterday was that the newest messages disappeared. One of the messages that disappeared was a message by molli in response to Diana's "Redland Loot". I can actually see it now in the archive at groups.google.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...n-iQ%404dv.net posted yesterday at 18:45), and the other message that has disappeared from my ISP's server is the fertilizing questions post (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...speer2.tds.net posted yesterday at 19:09) that you, Ray, responded to this morning. My ISP has your response, but they do not have the post with the question any more. The two posts disappeared within 4 hours after being posted. That is definitely not normal ISP behavior! Or shouldn't be anyway. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days, and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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OK, you want to share the problem and correction?
I've been using OE exclusively for a few years, and have yet to experience any of the problems folks have associated with it, but then again, maybe I just don't know what I'm missing! -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Actually, I just found out that this was not server trouble nor ISP fault at all, but a client side problem caused by Outlook Express (I will need to get a better news reader soon). My ISP (Verizon) was very helpful in establishing the cause of this problem, and pointing out to me how to correct this in Outlook Express. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... You're right! That sure ain't normal. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Ray, Actually no, what happened yesterday was definitely not a normal function of the ISP. As you point out, in a correctly functioning ISP, when the maximum is reached or when a certain amount of time has passed "the oldest go away from their server", but what happened to me yesterday was that the newest messages disappeared. One of the messages that disappeared was a message by molli in response to Diana's "Redland Loot". I can actually see it now in the archive at groups.google.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...n-iQ%404dv.net posted yesterday at 18:45), and the other message that has disappeared from my ISP's server is the fertilizing questions post (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...speer2.tds.net posted yesterday at 19:09) that you, Ray, responded to this morning. My ISP has your response, but they do not have the post with the question any more. The two posts disappeared within 4 hours after being posted. That is definitely not normal ISP behavior! Or shouldn't be anyway. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days, and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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Xref: kermit rec.gardens.orchids:59666
Ray, Apparently if you ever suspect that there may be messages on the server that you are not getting, in Outlook Express you can -- go to the Tools menu Options Maintenance -- press the "Clean Up Now" button -- using the "Browse" button next to Local Files for, select the newsgroup that you would like to refresh -- then use the "Reset" button to delete all local versions of the messages from you machine for this newsgroup and clean its memory of already having downloaded these messages -- it will ask you if you are sure -- if you agree, it will delete the local copies, and then you can synchronize all messages from the server again, and you should get all messages that are on the server -- Right click the newsgroup and use "Catch Up" to mark all messages as read (if you like), otherwise all will be unread at this point In my case the two messages for which I was getting the error that they are no longer on the server were among those that got downloaded. One possibility that has occurred to me of what may have happened: -- When the headers of these two messages were first downloaded obviously these two messages had to be on the server -- When I got the error message that the message is no longer on the server, maybe the messages were not on the server at that time or maybe there was an error in communication between the client and the server ... Anyway at that time the full messages could not be downloaded, however since the headers had already been downloaded earlier, Outlook from then on kept track of these messages as ones that should not be synchronized any more. -- However, Resetting the client revealed that these two messages were on the server later on (or maybe they had been there all along but client-server communication was not working, or something like that. That's what I think happened. But I may be wrong. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... OK, you want to share the problem and correction? I've been using OE exclusively for a few years, and have yet to experience any of the problems folks have associated with it, but then again, maybe I just don't know what I'm missing! -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Actually, I just found out that this was not server trouble nor ISP fault at all, but a client side problem caused by Outlook Express (I will need to get a better news reader soon). My ISP (Verizon) was very helpful in establishing the cause of this problem, and pointing out to me how to correct this in Outlook Express. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... You're right! That sure ain't normal. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Ray, Actually no, what happened yesterday was definitely not a normal function of the ISP. As you point out, in a correctly functioning ISP, when the maximum is reached or when a certain amount of time has passed "the oldest go away from their server", but what happened to me yesterday was that the newest messages disappeared. One of the messages that disappeared was a message by molli in response to Diana's "Redland Loot". I can actually see it now in the archive at groups.google.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...n-iQ%404dv.net posted yesterday at 18:45), and the other message that has disappeared from my ISP's server is the fertilizing questions post (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...speer2.tds.net posted yesterday at 19:09) that you, Ray, responded to this morning. My ISP has your response, but they do not have the post with the question any more. The two posts disappeared within 4 hours after being posted. That is definitely not normal ISP behavior! Or shouldn't be anyway. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days, and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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Can I get in on this thread? I didn't get the original header here (I've
been able to read it now, though), and it happens with enough regularity lately that it's become a real nuisance. Refreshing doesn't seem to work. At least now I know it's probably not Earthlink, since others are having problems. Diana "J Fortuna" wrote in message .. . Ray, Apparently if you ever suspect that there may be messages on the server that you are not getting, in Outlook Express you can -- go to the Tools menu Options Maintenance -- press the "Clean Up Now" button -- using the "Browse" button next to Local Files for, select the newsgroup that you would like to refresh -- then use the "Reset" button to delete all local versions of the messages from you machine for this newsgroup and clean its memory of already having downloaded these messages -- it will ask you if you are sure -- if you agree, it will delete the local copies, and then you can synchronize all messages from the server again, and you should get all messages that are on the server -- Right click the newsgroup and use "Catch Up" to mark all messages as read (if you like), otherwise all will be unread at this point In my case the two messages for which I was getting the error that they are no longer on the server were among those that got downloaded. One possibility that has occurred to me of what may have happened: -- When the headers of these two messages were first downloaded obviously these two messages had to be on the server -- When I got the error message that the message is no longer on the server, maybe the messages were not on the server at that time or maybe there was an error in communication between the client and the server ... Anyway at that time the full messages could not be downloaded, however since the headers had already been downloaded earlier, Outlook from then on kept track of these messages as ones that should not be synchronized any more. -- However, Resetting the client revealed that these two messages were on the server later on (or maybe they had been there all along but client-server communication was not working, or something like that. That's what I think happened. But I may be wrong. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... OK, you want to share the problem and correction? I've been using OE exclusively for a few years, and have yet to experience any of the problems folks have associated with it, but then again, maybe I just don't know what I'm missing! -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Actually, I just found out that this was not server trouble nor ISP fault at all, but a client side problem caused by Outlook Express (I will need to get a better news reader soon). My ISP (Verizon) was very helpful in establishing the cause of this problem, and pointing out to me how to correct this in Outlook Express. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... You're right! That sure ain't normal. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Ray, Actually no, what happened yesterday was definitely not a normal function of the ISP. As you point out, in a correctly functioning ISP, when the maximum is reached or when a certain amount of time has passed "the oldest go away from their server", but what happened to me yesterday was that the newest messages disappeared. One of the messages that disappeared was a message by molli in response to Diana's "Redland Loot". I can actually see it now in the archive at groups.google.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...n-iQ%404dv.net posted yesterday at 18:45), and the other message that has disappeared from my ISP's server is the fertilizing questions post (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...speer2.tds.net posted yesterday at 19:09) that you, Ray, responded to this morning. My ISP has your response, but they do not have the post with the question any more. The two posts disappeared within 4 hours after being posted. That is definitely not normal ISP behavior! Or shouldn't be anyway. Joanna "Ray" wrote in message ... That's a function of your ISP's message retention methodology. Some keep a message for "X" days, and some until that newsgroup has accumulated "Y" megabytes of total, at which point the oldest go away from their server. That's one of the reasons some of us gripe about people posting excessively large images on ABPO, as for some participants, it drastically shortens the time all of the images will be available on their ISP's servers. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . .. "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... When I came home, I saw several new messages on rgo, and two of these messages, when I clicked on them led to the message "this message is no longer available on the server", and these were definitely new messages! Could there have been other messages that did not even make it that far? Maybe I am missing several fascinating new threads. :-( Grrr! Diana, I can understand your frustration better now, and I wish I didn't. Joanna |
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