Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-07 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 06/03/2012 10:30, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: snip (An alternative explanation might be that your client might be placing the message in the outbox and retrying automatically in the background.) It's a plausible explanation if it's the kind of error that happens _only_ on posting. But no

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-07 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:30:00 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 10:22:15 UTC, Gour wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500 Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this a common problem with news servers? Is there some way

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-07 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:01:48AM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:30:00 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 10:22:15 UTC, Gour wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500 Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-07 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 13:01:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Do you mean a well known NNTP problem or just for our newsgroups? Just the DigitalMars NNTP server. The server will refuse to accept new connections when the system load is above a certain threshold.

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-07 Thread Gour
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:59:10 -0800 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: ROTFLMAO!!! That would certainly be the day, when D forums can lay claims to being the largest NNTP community online. That would be when D takes over the world. :D Well, at the moment digitalmars.D is the biggest

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-06 Thread Gour
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500 Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this a common problem with news servers? Is there some way to fix this? I regularly post to news groups from my mailer (Claws) and never had a single problem like you quoted above. Sincerely, Gour --

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-06 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 10:22:15 UTC, Gour wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500 Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this a common problem with news servers? Is there some way to fix this? I regularly post to news groups from my mailer (Claws) and never had a

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-06 Thread Gour
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100 Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: That only means you don't post enough ;) OK, I'll try to improve. ;) (An alternative explanation might be that your client might be placing the message in the outbox and retrying automatically in the

NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-05 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
I love the newsgroup interface. I hate it when it starts saying shit like load = 2045 gt 2000. Please try again later Especially when I'm posting a message. Is this a common problem with news servers? Is there some way to fix this? -Steve

Re: NNTP rules, news.digitalmars.com sucks

2012-03-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/5/12 2:33 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I love the newsgroup interface. I hate it when it starts saying shit like load = 2045 gt 2000. Please try again later Especially when I'm posting a message. Is this a common problem with news servers? Is there some way to fix this? I think it's