On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:15:28 UTC, Rod wrote:

Earlier today I wrote (and posted) the post below. Unfortunately that
attempt failed - probably because of the very subject of the post! So,
as it seemed to be bad all day, I am still interested to know the
answer. Apologies if by some magic my original post also makes it here
eventually.

original post

I seem to be getting loads and loads of problems with n.i.n. today -
keeps timing out and failing to connect, etc. I have even (drum roll...)
rebooted my machine today in an effort to avoid/correct problems!

Is this widespread? Or am I suffering on my own? (Or - can I wait while
they sort it out or do I have to go off and find out what is wrong here?
:-) )

My newsreader seems to display more detailed information. I had a couple
of failures with n.i.n this afternoon, and the message sent by the
server was:

502 Temporary database problem. Please try again later.

(this is cut and pasted from my newsreader's logfile). Seems OK now.

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