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From: Chauncy <nothere@z.edu>
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Subject: Re: Attn: Isis ... re: your posts etc ...
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:22:05 -0500, Isis <isis55423@hotpop.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:43:22 -0600, "howl" <howl@themoon.ca> wrote:
>
>:I grabbed the 2 Melville's again but alas not enought recovery files .... ran into the same problems with "La Ronde" (bless you for this Isis ... one of the great Ophuls) except that you posted the extra par2 and recovery went without a hitch ...
>:
>:all the parts were shown to be complete on my server and so I must assume (but with humility of course) that the chunk size has something to do with it ..
>:
>:if possible would you be able (I'm guessing you may not have the films any longer but .... ) to post an extra recovery file for the two Melville's ?? '
>:
>:just a thought and thanks as always for your posts ...
>:
>:howl.
>
>Hi Howl,
>
>No, I don't have anything that I can repost, sorry.
>
>What would be interesting to discover (since my posts show up as
>complete on your end) is whether the problem is with your NSP or your
>ISP.
>
>If you happen to feel in the mood to experiment, you could always try an
>http://www.giganews.com 3 day free trial. (You have to actually purchase
>it, but they won't bill you if you cancel within 72 hours. You only get
>1 GB of d/l during that time, so you could only d/l two of the missing
>parts , since the parts are ~ 400 MBs. That would only fix one of the
>posts. If you just used it to fill the missing segments with GrabIt, you
>could do both posts, since 8 blocks would only be ~ 32 MBs.)
>
>As you probably know, I am testing some extreme settings (as I normally
>do towards the end of each year), and so I am very interested in any
>feedback, positive or negative.
>
>For anyone reading this mail, part01 of 'Beauty and the Beast' is
>missing 6 segments on my end. My ISP (ComCast) was very busy last
>Saturday removing their free NSP (which was powered by GigaNews).
>
>This created a lot of 'ISP jitters' which caused articles 46 through 51
>to be missing from my post. I simply made a mental not to fill those
>segments after my post completed.
>
>Moral to this story: Mental notes can sometimes be unreliable. Much
>better is a 3M 'Post-It' note attached to one's monitor!
>
>Yes, dear readers, I FORGOT!
>
>Anyway, Howl, I will continue to double the number of PAR2's I post
>until we can get to the bottom of this problem.
>
>Thanks for your interest in my posts,
>
>Isis
Seems to me if you look at the retail pricing on Criterion DVD's
for the cost of one set Mr. Howl could download till he filled a few
hard drives . I guess it is more fun to Whine.
C
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