Re: [Pan-users] Re: Very odd behaviour

[Bruce Bowler]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:19:19 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bruce Bowler <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 06 Sep
> 2007 17:57:20 +0000:
> 
> > I've posted a couple of png files to http://www.bigelow.org/~bcb/
> > prob1.png and prob2.png.
> 
> [I've had this saved unread for a couple days, as I was simply too
> tired to make sense of it.  I slept ~16 hours yesterday, which I had
> off, and it makes a lot more sense now! =8^) ]
> 
> OK, the files are there, but not directly reachable from the URL you 
> posted.  That URL has a simple mailto: link, nothing else.

linewrapping gets you every time.  When I typed the first one, it was
one line, and I figured folks would be smart enough to change the 1 to
a 2 to look at the second.

> If you get a useful reply from the query you sent them, please post
> it. I'd like to verify my guess and am curious to see what if
> anything they say about what might have caused the problem.

here's what they had to say...

> Our newsserver crashed at about 4am (MEST) last Wednesday (August 
> 29th) morning when one of its CPUs failed.
> 
> There has been a lot of damage on the indexing system which might be 
> beyond repair, but we are still working on it and fixing what is 
> possible while the server is in full operation.
> 
> And only older articles (older than 29.08. early morning) should be 
> affected. Newer articles should be fine and correct.


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