Re: Download headers in a few newsgroups freeze tin?

$ ping news.mminternet.com
PING news.isp.giganews.com (216.196.97.142) from 216.86.199.2 : 56(84) 
bytes of data. Please note that I am using my friend's server for tinning.

Here's what weirder? At home with Adelphia PowerLink/High Speed Internet, 
I have rhe same news server (news.giganews.com), and it doesn't hang!

I went AFK during the long header download and it timed out before I came 
back. :)

BTW, I am not in [email protected] newsgroup so please reply in users one.
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Urs Janßen wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:27:02AM -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:
> > I emailed the file to [email protected].
> 
> the message was "a bit" large so it wan't resend to all the
> receipients, but I have my copy (if anyone is interrested I can
> resend it).
> 
> > It looks like it has funky characters in there.
> 
> the tail looks strange (the rest seems to be ok):
> 
> | GROUP alt.games.battlefield1942
> | 211 52990 13779 66768 alt.games.battlefield1942
> | XOVER -
> | 224 xover information follows
> | 13779	Re: AGB Game	"STIG" <[email protected]>	Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:01:57 GMT	<[email protected]>	<[email protected]>	1437	16	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:13779
> | [..output...]
> | 35201	Flying The Choppers	"Buckshot" <Jasonc87(at)comcast(dot)net>	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:19:19 -0500	<[email protected]>		1759	21	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:35201
> | 35202	Re: Auto-Download Custom Maps ?	"¤    Phil C" <[email protected]>	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:24:18 -0500	<[email protected]>	<[email protected]> <[email protected]>	2029	30	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:35202
> | 35203	Re: AGB Stats Site not working?	Lansenerd <lansenerd@NO_SPAM_hotmail.com>	Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:35:40 +0100	<[email protected]>	<[email protected]>	1327	11	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:35203
> | 35204	Re: New DC Map: Occupied Territories	Flycutter® <[email protected]>	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:40:32 -0500	<[email protected]>	<bnk39n$11mi
> | Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> the record number 35204 is incomplete (either cause it contains junk
> on the server and the server can't read more of it (e.g. it contains
> a NULL-byte or something like that) or the connection was closed for some
> reason (shouldn't happen in that stage)) and right afterwards the
> connection is closed without the end of records indicator (single "."
> on a line). tin hangs there and waits for the rest of the record not
> noticing that the connection is closed. dunno if we can (easily) deal
> with the problem. it looks like a server-side error, so you might
> also ask the newsadmin to rebuild the overview-database for the related
> group (but then we loose our debug case ,-).