🚀 go-pugleaf

Having worked my way around some of the more obvious mistakes, I wonder if 
anyone has any answers to the following:

Under PPP, the modem drops off mid-download at random, without the 
apparent knowledge of ICE. I've not had this problem with  any other 
program, but this is repeatable.

So....under SLIP I've been trying out downloading headers and getting 
individual articles (this may or may not be relevant to the problem I'm 
having). Quite often downloading gets interrupted, either during a long 
list of headers or midway through a long message (eg. binaries). The only 
apparent way out of this is do disconnect News and try again, and this 
often fails. I'm already in News, so kicking has no effect. Leaving it 
results in the connection timing out. I get at least 3-4 times as often as 
the checksum error, which seems to cure the same way if I'm lucky.

And now....after a particularly frustrating time trying to download 3 news 
postings and half a dozen headers (yep, that's all) for 15 minutes or so, 
going through the procedures I outline above, I finally gave up and quit 
back into Oasis, which has "lost" all my newsgroups! 

A quick check with Everest reveals they're still there, but AFAICS some of 
the timing information has been replaced with XXXXXXXXX, and will have to 
be manually reinserted if I'm not to lose all that info - assuming they 
don't magically reappear after another log on.

I'm not sure if it's my configuration at fault here, but I have made as 
sure as I can that everything's in order - indeed, when it does work I've 
been so impressed that I've just dusted off the ole chequebook(!) <fx 
moths flapping around room etc> - so any comments, or even just an 
acknowledgement that it's not just me at fault and someone's working on 
this as I write, would be welcome.

Andrew

[Keeping the important stuff on Oasis 1.35 for the time being....]

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