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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... snip Of course, NIN isnt perfect or infallible, I am sure there must be times its servers are down, or some of them. Just hasnt happened to me..... yet....... touch wood.....cross fingers. I just knew I shoudnt have done that :-) look what I just got! Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject ' Who ordered the movies?', Account: 'news.individual.net', Server: 'news.individual.net', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '502 Temporary database problem. Please try again later.', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 502, Error Number: 0x800CCC17 Now, this is a reply, so I'll try again...hmm, its just gone so must have been very temporary. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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Tumbleweed wrote:
"Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... snip Of course, NIN isnt perfect or infallible, I am sure there must be times its servers are down, or some of them. Just hasnt happened to me..... yet....... touch wood.....cross fingers. I just knew I shoudnt have done that :-) look what I just got! Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject ' Who ordered the movies?', Account: 'news.individual.net', Server: 'news.individual.net', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '502 Temporary database problem. Please try again later.', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 502, Error Number: 0x800CCC17 Now, this is a reply, so I'll try again...hmm, its just gone so must have been very temporary. Murphy's out today, lads! Its other occasional favourite is "Line 3 too long", which seems to indicate a particular thread has received too many messages; when it's appeared, though, I haven't noticed any consistency about the length of thread which triggers it. No apparent consistency, either, about whether it will retrieve the message from one's OE outbox with the next posting or the next synchronisation. So I think it's a matter of the handling of transient conditions, and probably a weakness left over from early days when Usenet was smaller. In case anybody would like it, I Googled the following list: http://www.newsservers.net/FreeNewsServers.php?offset=0 I doubt if it's complete or up to date (it doesn't mention news.individual's change to a modest charge, or Teranews's once-only registration fee). There's also Google Groups, of course, but that's a web-based news archive, rather than a client-based news server; but it's better in some respects than it used to be as a stop-gap, and the archive is very good. -- Mike. |
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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... Tumbleweed wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... JennyC wrote: Sorry about this, but I have not signed up for the German newsfeeder, and want to check whether this one works as well......... Jenny snipped You're lucky, or maybe don't so often use the heavier-traffic newsgroups: it chokes every so often on busy groups (I've never had it do so on urg), and displays a fictitious error message instead of posting. Yesterday, it wouldn't download at all for a period; this is less frequent, though. Mike. I've capitulated and signed up. I've never had any trouble with the DFNN server which I've been using for years and years. maybe it will be quieter if not everyone pays up :~) Jenny |
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