On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:20:02 GMT, Upscale wrote:
"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
news:2iurc3Frrgu5U2@uni-
The only drawback is that they have a short timeout - about 5
minutes, so if I spend a long time composing a response I have
to reconnect. Doesn't happen often.

Sounds like you need one of those little stay-connected programs. It's
designed to prevent disconnection by pinging the server every few minutes or
whatever period you set.

Well, with the newsserver we both use, it's not a huge deal; I'm using
'slrn' as a newsreader, which authenticates for me and I don't lose
anything, just get the two second "reconnecting to server ...." message.

It's gone down twice in the last couple of years; much more reliable
than any ISP newsserver that I've ever paid for.

Dave Hinz