I have the same problems, Syd. It stops recieving data and then starts
again. Or disconnects.
The server company blaim the phone company and vice versa. Or both blaim my=
computer / modem.
THEY !! Are NEVER wrong....
Klas.
At 12:05 2004-03-19, you wrote:
>I endorse Vicki Powys' views on keeping things simple with naturerecordist=
s.
>
>In just the last few days I have found that a number of naturerecordists
>messages have had the effect that as soon as I open one from my inbox, it
>causes the system to try to connect to the net, though there is nothing in
>the message to indicate a reason for doing so. My impression is that thes=
e
>messages have all had type faces different from what normally appears on m=
y
>screen, but I'm not sure. (I'll check from now on.)
>
>Sadly, I don't know enough about computers and the net to know what is goi=
ng
>on.
>
>I have just a single phone line and only connect my modem to it when I wan=
t
>to use the connection. As soon as my 'in' messages are down-loaded, I
>disconnect again, so my computer can't be connected when the above happens=
,
>and I don't feel inclined to connect to find out.
>
>I have further problems, which I guess must be peculiar to my set-up, not
>naturerecordists, or maybe to my ISP, Ozemail. Often when my computer dia=
ls
>for a connection, I get a message that the remote side is not responding
>correctly. Sometimes a second attempt is successful, sometimes not. And
>when finally connected and getting my in-messages a common event is that
>after about a minute, everything stops. No more data comes to my computer=
.
>Then one of two things happens: either after another minute or two more da=
ta
>starts coming, or the connection drops out and I get a message, "you have
>been disconnected".
>
>All this gets the phone company additional calls, and Ozemail more time to
>bill me for - insignificant for both of them, I'm sure. (Unless it's also
>happening to many other email users as well?)
>
>But the fewer Ks of data I have to down-load, the better are my chances of
>doing so at first attempt.
>
>Syd Curtis in Australia
>
>
> > From: Vicki Powys <>
> > Reply-To:
> > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:36:08 +1100
> > To: naturerecordists group <>
> > Subject: [Nature Recordists] what's happening with HTML?
> >
> >
> >
> > As well as cluttering up our computers with unwanted attachments, has t=
he
> > naturerecordists' group also now changed their policy on the use of
> HTML? I
> > am now receiving non-HTML messages with fancy typeface, coloured typefa=
ce
> > etc, and with extra advertisements from Yahoo on those messages. As
> well as
> > slowing the download times, and message opening times, my computer actu=
ally
> > froze while opening one non-HTML message this morning. I fear too that=
the
> > door is now being left wide open for viruses.
> >
> > I vote that we keep naturerecordists' communication format as simple as
> > possible, so that no-one is left out or feels compelled to unsubscribe.
> >
> > Vicki Powys
> > Australia
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
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