It appears to coincide with my (already slow at the best of times -
1.5Mbit or so peak) broadband being particularly slug-like, so the "timing out waiting for confirmation, and attempting to re-send" theory does seem to hold water.
Then all of the common newsreaders are broken by your definition.
They all wait for a response. The time they wait before assuming that the send attempt has failed due to a transmission problem is configurable, and the response to such a failure can also sometimes be configured, but may well be hard coded. Most newsreaders are single threaded, and so cannot be used to read messages while waiting for the server to respond, so you have to decide on a compromise between hanging round waiting for responses and reading other messages.
I use aioe.org, and my newsreader has never sent multiple posts. And I can certainly use it while it is posting or waiting to post or receive. It uses a separate transport for that. Which also manages to know if a post has been sent successfully.
Not really to do with being on broadband I think, more they way the setup works. I used Usenet on dialup and then 512k broadband for a number of years
I don't I've ever had a post sent multiple time by my newsreader, and I can also read and post stuff whilst it's dealing with sending and collecting news.
I use Turnpike, and the news posting and collecting is handled by an a separate program from the reading.
Only downlaoding the headers to start with, rather than the full message, will put more overhead on the system when reading as well.
Back in the day, when they were typical connections. I suspect that the combo of newer-version software "expecting" faster connections and the increasing flakiness of semi-orphaned and unloved news servers is contributing.
How long you listen to the sound of silence is a moot point.
Generally on today's internet anything more the a second is 'time out'
Reminds me of a long ago afternoon in childhood when my elder sisters and their odd friends were playing the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, largely because the friends had a balcony...
"Wherefore art thou, Rom-ee-o?" (repeated twice) 'Oh just hang ON, I'm behind a bush doing something.'
On Thursday 21 November 2013 17:38 Adrian wrote in uk.d-i-y:
I've not noticed anything in general terms - and I'm using tethered 3G quite a lot on the train to read news.
Tethered 3G makes 57000 baud modem links look *good* most of the time. Sure, it peaks at several Mbps on a good day. In a few minutes you can be down to bugger all and packet round-trip times of several MINUTES (I kid you not - I leave ping running in a terminal so I can see when the signal gets good and quickly do stuff before the next tunnel.
TB here is set for 30 seconds. It's also set to put a message up on screen telling me the send attempt has failed and would I like to try again? I've never suffered from the multiple posting problem, even with bad TACS conditions, Which might let you guess how long I've been playing this game.
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