In article <9jkvm0lshe069nmaumqqqchtbi9p0od4aj@4ax.com>, 
pov### [at] almostbestwebnet says...
> More info: I use Windows ME as the OS, and hamster "classic"
> as the newsgrabber.  I've used the same version since 2001
> so (again) nothing has changed on my end.
> 
Mine Windows 98, using Gravity, so no common issue there, though it may 
be why mines successfully transfers everything, then dies during a 
posting, but yours hangs during the downloading. Though this doesn't make 
sense if it is the server having trouble sending them. I suspect more 
something that is tied to timeouts for the connection or some other odd 
issue. Though.... I was having the same problem you had on nearly every 
message when the reader was set to download only the headers. When I 
clicked on a header, it would go to the server to retrieve the actual 
article, but for some reason the server would fail to respond, but the 
client would insist it was still connected, until I clicked the dialog 
box to acknowledge the error, then the 'connected' icon actually showed a 
disconnect. Same behaviour I guess, your must do something slightly 
different when downloading the messages. Mine does:

1. Get a list of groups with new posts.
2. Retrieve headers from groups.
3. If set to defaults - download on demand.
   As set now - download all new posts.

Yours may be trying to retrieve a header, then the article for it, then 
the next header, etc or something, which is why it dies the same way mine 
did when downloading on demand. Who knows. It is definitely odd though.

> So who does one contact for povray news server Problems?
> 
If I knew...

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