On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:43:28 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> ChattyCathy wrote:
>>
>>> I did mention in another thread (last week?) that support came back
>>> and said it seemed to be a hardware issue... Seemed to improve
>>> somewhat after that. They also asked me to please report any
>>> (further) problems, which I will do if necessary.
>>
>> It did improve to the extent it didn't ask for my password for a few
>> days. Then it cropped up again, but it hasn't been so much of a
>> problem. Definite improvement.
>
> DH runs something called 'leafnode' for the newsgroups he reads (pulls
> from usenet-news and two other filler-servers) and I see that the logs
> have indicated the odd authentication error in the last day or three,
> but nowhere near as bad as it was a week or two ago; so, yes, I'd say
> there has been an improvement, but it hasn't disappeared completely.
> Thing is, if one uses leafnode it keeps retrying to pull headers and/or
> post every 10 minutes or so (depending how one has it configured) - so
> if one of his posts doesn't get through on the 'first pass' it usually
> gets through on the next, so to him it's No Biggie.

two weeks or more ago it was acting up a little more than now. but as you
say, on the second try the stuff goes through, so no reason to sweat it.

your pal,
blake