Hello Patrick,
on 25-Jul-00, you wrote:
>> Hello.
Hello.
> Ithink that is more liekly an ISP issue.
What is ISP, the provider??? I have tryed different NNTP Servers. But there
is no difference in MD-II behaviour.
>> There is a second Bug that makes MD-II really hard to use. Sometimes
>> MD-II forgets the messagpointers of a group.
> This happens to me if ever Iget a crash beofre downloading has
> finished. The pointers seem to be only updated at thew end of
> downloading.
But here it seems to be the pointers are killed compleatly. I dont get the same
messages again. I get ALL old stuff from the server, sometimes two years old stuff.
> It could be that the same problem occurs if connection is
> broken by ISP or line noise.
Ah, yes i have a really bad line-quality i think. My SupraExpress 33.6 is also not a
good quality modem i guess. To verify the quality i have configured my modem to play
the onlinesound everytime - not only during the connection phase.
So i found out that somtimes i have noise in the line. Sometimes the modem
restarts handshake with the provider modem - a sound that i know fram the
connection phase - the handshake? It sounds very different from the normal
modemsound.
> I really don't believe it is MD-II causing the problem. Have you a 56k
> modem? Try choking it back to 33.6 and see if it still happens.
I will degrade it to 14.4.
> Also, if
> you have a 56k modem, try disconnecting all other phones, fax, etc while
> you download
OK, this is possible because i have a really bad connection quality here.
But why this can confuse a newsreader???
WWW, ftp and zmodem has never problems with bad line quality - because
there are protokols who have an error-detection. So i beleve that a BAD line
can only cause a slow transfer or at worst an offline. But i have no
offlines here and i never have problems with ftp, no corrupt files or such.
So i can hardly beleve that a bad line can cause this problems with MD-II ??
Can it ???
I heard that the NNTP is very old and fossil - and that it was never
designed for DOWNLOAD but only for online reading. Is that true, is this a
general known problem with Newsreaders, or a specific bug with MD-II ?
thank you for replying.
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