Is anyone else having random problems with eternal-september? Keeps timing out downloading messages followed by requesting the password again. Randomly refuses to reply to messages. Other times it's completely fine.
I've tried purging all the newsgroup dbs and the rc file and downloaded the groups again - see if it makes a difference...
Only time I've seen problems with it in the last few months, it's been polite enough to return a "load average too high, try later" sort of message.
Forgot to add, I know about the Avast! problem but I'm using the workaround to not scan newsgroups.
And as if by magic it seems to be working fine again.
Ok, ignore me and carry on! :)
Ah, yes it did say something like that a couple of times. Of course their status page doesn't mention any problems.
Had that with Thunderbird. Eventually changed to Opera for RSS and NGs after trying numerous suggested ideas to fix the problem with TB.
Still using Eternal September with no problems at all but Opera does have its limitations.
For a payment-optional service, I treat that as fair game.
I think that only mentions actual problems rather than just busy periods.
It seems to be hitting the max load average they've configured (prevents new connections in order to keep existing ones performing).
I noticed the max allowed load average was temporarily dropped much lower this morning, maybe for maintenance or a controlled shutdown, but there's nothing mentioned on the support newsgroup.
My newsreader tries AIO first then NES. It quite frequently throws up an error message from NES. But sometimes the other way round. Hence using them both.
No cannot say I've had any issues that don't normally occur with either email or other servers generally. By that I mean that of late some web sites seem unreachable for a few minutes, or imaps servers are here and gone and I'd put down the odd server loss as part of the same issue, ie probably either the nameserver or Virgin in my case. Certainly not had password problems. Brian
For email, thunderbird stores the username in the username field and password in the password filed of a single record of its database, so far so good.
But for some reason for usenet, it stores the username in the username field of one record, and the password in the username field of a separate record, this occasionally seems to end up with thunderbird failing to authenticate properly to news servers.
If you are reading it using Mozilla Thunderbird there is a know issue with it. However the latest version "seems" to have cured it, I have not had any problems since updating.
I have, anecdotally, noticed the same, and it SEEMS to be down to ISP peering links or router flap.
I had presupposed it was just my ISP, but perhaps what is happening is that there is a cyber war going on with routing paths being upset.
The high load thong on eternal september is however a classic 'I'm stressed out right now, dont bother me' response.
Quite often it means the server is purging old posts and generally keeping its disks in some semblance of free space.
No problems here but then, as previously mentioned, I've gone back to a
4 year-old version of Thunderbird :)Another Dave
I've decided to try the other extreme and have just installed Thunderbird 12.0.a2. Working just fine now but it sounds more like the server than Thunderbird from what others are saying.
Lee
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