On 31 Oct 2006 09:21:54 -0800, "Randy Aldous"
wrote:


Kingfish wrote:
3-4 times in the last week I've posted replies only to get the Oops!
message and that the page is unavailable (reply got wiped out). This
after a masterfully crafted & often witty response on my part which the
group was denied tongue-in-cheek mode off Seriously, is anyone else
seeing this? Most annoying...


Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...

Some default news readers such as Outlook and Outlook Express use Word
for post composition. I never used it with OE, but it was there. I
now use Agent (regular, not free). Outlook and OE are both good
readers and are safe it all the fancy stuff like HTML and running
macros is turned off.

Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

The problem may not be with Google's site. The net has been rather
heavily loaded for the past few days and a tremendous upsurge in spam
the last week or two. I've found some sites I regularly use were
timing out before I could connect. Even the weather was slow to
connect and download. Some sites that *normally* load in a second or
two were loading progressively with just enough stuff showing up
they'd not time out, but would take one or two minutes to fully load.
Some never did make it completely.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com