Post by Tennant StuartPost by StuartPost by Dr J E HurleyFor the last two days I have experienced problems downloading news.
Download has been successful on one occasion in that period. I am seeing
if I can send news. Is anyone else experiencing problems - the status
information all seems to suggest things are ok.
I've had the same thing - the little counter box says how many posts
will arrive, then nothing does. Until earlier this evening, when a few
dozen posts came. There must be many hundreds missing.
I think the Status page(s) might not be fully
reflective of everything that's happening at
the moment.
The problem you outline above - where articles
appear as listed but apparently don't arrive -
doesn't mean that anything is in fact missing.
It is usually indicative of a server - or in
our case a block of servers - being switched
out to another block whilst they are physically
moved from one location to another.
You will all understand - I hope by now - why
this might be.
In essence..
What happens is that the article numbers - which
your reader holds and are updated every download
- may be different between one server unit and
another.
Normally, working in unison, they are the same
numbers ..but when one is offline for a move or
somesuch, the numbers can become misaligned.
As indeed happens if you unsubscribe to a group
only to re-subscribe at a later date, when the
numbers then have to catch up..
You lose nothing ..it should all catch up once
servers are back on line again..
Email is a different matter - normally what occurs
here is the emails, outgoing and incomming, are
stored in a queue until such time as retrieval is
possible. They are not dumped, nor are they lost.
Post by Tennant StuartPost by StuartSee threads in argonet.acorn.misc and elsewhere
What's this then? The poor relation?
No, Tennant - it isn't. :))
All that Stuart, (or was it Doc Pete) meant is that
there is presently an ongoing if gently reflective
discussion in argonet.acorn.misc...
Paul was only buried a day or two ago.
People, being mostly human, are grieving - each in
their own manner and time. Perhaps we all need to
give ourselves just a little 'space' while we
re-engage with the normality of life...
hh.. :))
Bill ZFC
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