How's your connection to the Spring?

Some days yes, some days no. I think a lot of it is on my end with a slow ISP, but sometimes the Spring just loads slowly--I notice it when I am FTPing to, not just when I'm on the boards.

Last night (Thursday) I was unable to log on. The dialog box said "timed out". Maybe my ISP..but all the other websites were ok. It's erratic. (Didn't say erotic....maybe that too!!)

had trouble getting in last night too, got a message the computer couldn't connect to the server. Buuuuut, i tried the basic url (http://www.spring.net) and got in no problem.

Looks like MCI's having router problems. I can't get there from here, so to speak. $ traceroute 206.97.234.70 traceroute to ns1.spring.net (206.97.234.70) 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 fw1.wenet.net (206.15.64.252) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 pb-nap.bdr.hooked.net (206.80.17.2) 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 3 core3-atm3-0.SanFrancisco.mci.net (198.32.128.12) 5 ms 4 ms 5 ms 4 core1.Dallas.mci.net (204.70.4.217) 43 ms 43 ms 42 ms 5 border4-fddi-0.Dallas.mci.net (204.70.114.35) 43 ms 43 ms 43 ms 6 * * * 7 border4-fddi-0.Dallas.mci.net (204.70.114.35) 43 ms (ttl=251!) !H * 44 ms (ttl=251!) !H $ Twasn't us folks, it wuz mci (points the finger). We staying online and I was able to be logged in during this whole period. But it was getting pretty lonely there for a while!

FTPing is slow right now--practically stuck (Noon Central time).

just curious...why is this in the Drool conference? :)

Cause I had so many emails and icq's from droolers the other night when we went down. And you are such a large, supportive group!

I always want to go to drool too, but I don't know much about actors, male or female, and I'm too lazy to start reading up on them. What a damned shame.

(Charlotte) just curious...why is this in the Drool conference? :) This is one of those topics that is linked from it's original Conference (Porch) to Drool and responses appear in both places. Since we droolers often stay within the walls of this Conference, I think this is Terry's way of introducing us to the people who participate at other parts of Spring. Sounds like a good idea to me. (Terry) And you are such a large, supportive group! However single-minded we are ;-p (Riette) I always want to go to drool too, but I don't know much about actors, male or female Really? There is no actor you have a crush on? Come, come...fess up, who is it? ;-D We also do general celebrities (sports figures, musicians, men in the news, Historical Hunks). If you think of someone who does it for you, I'll be happy to start a topic and hunt down some photos to facilitate your drooling :-) Oh, incidentally Terry...my connection is just fine. Except for the times when Spring hiccups, I fly through the boards. I've even grown fond of the Yapp software (something I once thought I'd never get used to). Hope you never change it ;-)

Thanks for the explanation, guys! What a team! For the record, my connection this morning is superb. I only use the URL through netscape. Wouldn't know how to telnet or ftp if you paid me. :)

Charlotte Thanks for the explanation, guys! What a team! Come join us. Newcomers are always welcomed . (Riette) I always want to go to drool too, but I don't know much about actors, male or female Honey...on this board...you'll learn fast. Great fun. Hop on!

(especially if it's onto your favorite actor...)

Thanks Evelyn - just might!

Hmm, Riette hopping on to her favorite actor, now, there was an offer of posting photos and starting a topic but facilitating this would be pretty amazing, but Nan, Evelyn et al are very capable.

Riette hopping on to her favorite actor, now, there was an offer LOL....See what I mean, Riette. #68, 97 & 98 are my favs..... Colin Firth..... but all are fun.

oh, riette, david duchovny is there too! (guess who started that one *grin*)

Hop on it, girls.

I'm not hopping onto anyone but Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins - they give me the shivers, they're so sexy. Especially Anthony Hopkins. Hope I never get to meet him, I'll probably go into a coma or something!

LOL!!

You're my kind of woman, Riette! All my friends don't understand why I never want to meet Kevin. It's nice to know someone who does.

ha-ha!!! So you're a Kevin fan? He's sweet. And which film turned you into his fan? My favourite film with him is Waterworld. I adored it.

You and I are the only ones on the planet with a fondness for Waterworld, Riette! He first caught my eye in Fandango, and has been getting better ever since.

(Charlotte) You and I are the only ones on the planet with a fondness for Waterworld, Riette! I liked Waterworld (but, in truth, I've always felt it was because Kevin can do no wrong for me ;-D) It's not Bull Durham, but what is? ;-)~~~

Hey, there's now 3 people on the planet who liked Waterworld, count me in! But I was far more interested in Jeanne Triplehorn (who also played in The Firm with Tom Cruise).

didn't see Waterworld...

Go rent it, KM! We need to start a movement here! I'm sure you'll like it, and then we'll have four people on the planet who liked it. :)

I loved it mostly because of the brilliant photography, and all those wonderful scrap metal contructions. Charlotte, Nan would you two like to come and join us in Art? I think (I hope) it isn't boring there, even for people who aren't 'into' art. There's even some art by Wer and Autumns daughters. Plus I promised Terry something very special in return for a sketch from him!

(Riette) Charlotte, Nan would you two like to come and join us in Art? I think (I hope) it isn't boring there, even for people who aren't 'into' art. Actually, I've already been...several times. I was going to jump into the American Impressionist conversation then I got sidetracked somehow :-/ Plus I promised Terry something very special in return for a sketch from him! And that would be...? ;-)

Go and see for yourself in the 'Let the fun begin' topic! No, it would be great to have you there too, Nan.

Been a little 'disconnected' to the Spring... but here I am! How's the drooling going guys and gals?

Welcome back, Stacey! School back in session?

We had www down for a bit tonight, and our new access.spring.net machine's been up and down.... Peter's been setting up websites, including austen.com, suzyamis, brucesterling, silkcloth, silkclothes, silkclothing, etc. For a while brucesterling.com and suzyamis were sharing the same address, a glitch. And there are other minor glitches we're working out. I'm down here at the T-1 location standing by at the console while Peter tweaks our dns. Check things out and let me know if you notice any glitches or changes that need to be made.

I've had no problems this morning - and last night I was out, so I don't know if it will have worked then. I'll see how it goes from tomorrow night onwards though....tonight I'm out again! Cool, edgy, hip!

If we get any cooler, edgier and hipper I think I'm gonna throw up!

Roll down the window.

I'm down at the colocation site for the Spring and I just brought www back up. What an ordeal! I had a spare power supply to swap in but it didn't match the old one on this box. At least the connectors are different, and no soldering iron! Well, it's back together with bubble gum and bailing wire. It's not that bad, it's just the fan inside the power supply that I had to replace. And it's spinning now. And this server is running cooler. Check the time on this box and high tail it outa here. Captains Log, stardate 8/30/98 10:22 pm we are back on line after a brief interuption of about 20 minutes of moaning and groaning. You can resume normal activities now!

Thank you, cool guy!

I dunno... he sounded a bit more edgy to me!

Yep, more toward edgy on the proverbial edgy/cool continuum.

I hope this posting goes through. I am testing. It went through on Topic 1 Introductions.

Thank you....so far, so good. :-))

I've asked William Roland (wer@spring.net) to set up Heidi and Karen as hosts of drool. Congratulations Heidi and Karen! I'm out of pocket so hopefully Wm. can do this sometime today. If not, I can get you set up with hostly powers later. But in the meantime, please correspond with wer@spring.net about this and he'll, hopefully, get in touch with you!

Terry, I finally gave up on Explorer 4. and Yapp.... The latter refused to take my posts.(Ex.3,which I previously had was okay) Nan had the same problem with Ex.4 Suggested I download Netscape. Which I did and now all is well. Pl. tell anyone else who has this problem. Neither Kaylene or Dave could resolve the problem.

anyone having browser problems might like to take a look at Opera - http://www.operasoftware.com

MSIE 4.0 was quite buggy and had problems with a lot of different applications. I installed 4.01 and have had no problems either here or anywhere else.

Thanks, Terry. Will get in touch with William to get the ball rolling.

Great! And thanks so much Heide! New folks in apps: Topic 102 of 387: 'PIRCH' Resp 13 of 13: Solarboy (Solarboy) Sat, Sep 26, 1998 (04:12) 2 lines All the chat programs are similar or are they? l'm trying to find a relativly easy way of conversating. [102/387] Respond, forget, or pass? Item 263 entered Fri, Aug 9, 1996 (19:54) by Paul Terry Walhus (terry) I-View 1 new of 1 response total. Topic 263 of 387: 'I-View' Resp 1 of 1: Pierre R. Schwob (prs) Mon, Sep 28, 1998 (16:02) 5 lines This program isn't supported any longer (since 1996!) Please do not attempt to register for this shareware. Pierre R. Schwob PRS Corporation [263/387] Respond, forget, or pass? Item 381 entered Tue, May 5, 1998 (02:54) by Forrest H. Stroud (buzz) Microsoft Media Player 1 new of 2 responses total. Topic 381 of 387: 'Microsoft Media Player' Resp 2 of 2: John Tubbs (WhytKnyt) Thu, Sep 24, 1998 (17:26) 2 lines Version 6.0? The Microsoft download site says it's version 5.2.

Heide, I'll change your host login from Heide to heide tomorrow... is Karen's login name all lower case as well?

Bill, I login as KarenR. Thanks.

got it...will fix your and Heide's logins as soon as I can...

done...heide and KarenR are now hostesses...

If i may be so bold (and nosy) what happened to the old hostess?

Nan won the Powerball lottery and retired!! Just kidding. She's in graduate school and, with her work on cf.com, she needed to lighten up on her Drool responsibilities. Took two of us to replace her. :-)

Why, my goodness! I think we're in. Got that big red PANIC button on my screen now. Thanks guys.

Hey, William...Terry...anybody home?? How's about setting Karen and Heide's passwords that they sent you for the sub-directories and setting up their email accounts. Karen has a real neat cover of Colin that we are all eager to see and she can't do it ....Youse' holdin' up the woiks.....:-)

Calling Terry now...

wuz up?

See my note in the projects conference.

Thanks Terry, William and Jeff. I have alerted Karen and Heide. Karen has pictures to scan and can't do it. Appreciate what you guys can do to install the new credentials. I am off to UK. See ya' at the end of the month.

Have fun in the UK, say hi to Mike Griggs if you see him on the street there.

Trying to get onto Topic 2, Terry, but I keep getting an internal server error or misconfiguration. Gee, is it just me? I also get the same message in Topic 34 but no problem anywhere else I've gone. Also, can you explain why Topic 98 doesn't show up in the Conference Center page? There is daily activity there but perhaps it's just me again.

I'll look in to these problems Heide, seems to be working ok today. You may just need to retry. Important information about the Y2K bug: Topic 7 of 9: Y2K or Year 2000 problem Sat, May 2, 1998 (09:22) | Paul Terry Walhus (terry) 1 new of 2 responses total. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic 7 of 9 [computer]: Y2K or Year 2000 problem Response 2 of 2: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 11, 1998 (10:31) * 1 lines

Terry, According to the conference log, Topic 98 was "retired" by Myretta on 10/8. As a result, it does not show up on the main listing or for those of us who use "new" even if there are new comments. Can you undo this or will we need to start a new topic for Film Discussions, one of our most active? Also, has a subdirectory been set up for uploading pictures that we wish to link to the drool conference? A ~karen??? or ~heide???

Just decided to do a little testing myself and inadvertenly "retired" this topic. Sorry. :(

I too wondered why Topic 98 had gone from the main menu. I hope it all gets taken care of quickly. Thank you Terry!

Moon, you can still read and post at 98. All "retirement" means is that it doesn't show up on the menu page.

new here, what do i need to know to be political,etc. not sure i understand the layout of the land. sounds interesting however want to listen and learn before jumping in .

i took a left while looking to down load realaudio. looked interesting. looking to chat and moving around to see what's happening . loved the name moonbeam.....an intellectually sound decision.

yo, just read "macworld", i don't have a mac. guess that's it guys. sorry i won't get to know the rest.

According to the conference log, Topic 98 was "retired" by Myretta on 10/8. That's odd. I haven't done a hostly deed in months.

Thank you cfadm whoever you are for resurrecting the topics. :) And Myretta, I always blame the mouse. ;-o

Willliam most likely restored the topics. cfadm is the administrative account for Yapp.

yep, it's all my fault...

This systems been running continually without crashing for 47 days now. We probably need to do a reboot just to let the processes clear out.

The floods have wreaked havoc with our net connection out of San Antonio, but it only seems to be affecting the Spring's subnet isdn connection so far. But there is major work going on at the colocation site to get the routing back to what it was before all the heavy weather. We're on a UPS but there may be outages due to the regions abnormal weather. Stay tuned.

Terry, #97 is not accepting postings.

Next time you come in it may. wer has some insights on this (email spew@www.spring.net)

actually, it's probably better to e-mail me at either rotazo@aol.com or kitchen_manager@juno.com or wer@spring.net (don't think you ever did a forward on spew@www.spring.net, or did you, Terry?)

You do have a forward file set up there now and it forwards spewmail to both hotmail and your other email acct but not to wer.

It goes to Juno and Hotmail.

Who at Hotmail? Should forward to AOL... not sure if I remember my Hotmail address and password...

Hi. 3rd Feb 1999 has just changed to 7th Feb 2036 on most boards I visit but not this one I notice!

It's fixed now Allison, it was the date on our server. It's our own little premature y2k problem.

I have been having more and more trouble with Heidi's Colin firth site 116. I click on activity in the last week but it goes through all of them until Jan. 27 and there it stops. It took 11 minutes to get through just that many. It seems to be getting slower and slower.

I am having trouble posting on 118. I have tried to post twice and got a Server Error.

sorry I missed these posts...is everything okay now?

found out why I missed these posts... little gremlins have unlinked this topic from it's namesake in porch...

Can you tell me why when I post on #118, I get a screen saying nothing but Yapp Error and no explanation?

And why has that response not shown up as "New"?

I'm not sure but I'm running some experiments to see if I can figure it out for you!

It just happened again when I tried to reply to you on this board.

The message I got this time was Yapp Error and then it showed a charater string which started AllisonM+and then each letter of my message separated by plus signs. Does that help?

Wer, the message actually says "Invalid request message". The problem is intermittant. Thanks for your help.

That should read "invalid request method"....

I hesitate to provoke the cyber-gods by telling you I have never had trouble getting into Drool or any of Sites of Spring. I am here every day, all day. Perhaps Hawaii does have it's up side. You are busy fixing the problems of the day while I am still asleep! Happy thought, indeed. May they all be little ones. My appreciation to those who keep things running so efficiently behind the scenes.

actually, that happens to me often as well, Allison, and it might, I've got a new idea... are you still unable to post successfully to #118? last I looked, your last two posts wer 1057 and 1094, right? (thanks, Marcia, even if I only do a little bit here and there...)

Wer, I posted on #118; 1057 and 1094 were mine. I then posted 1143 and 1144. I got an error when I tried to post 1143 the first time. I clicked on "clear", just to seeif that would make a difference and then successfully posted twice. Interesting that you have the same problem. I have just upgraded my PC so I was wondering if it had something to do with that. BTW I got another Yapp error before posting this!

Wer, I have found a way round the problem if you are interested. When I get an error message, I click on "refresh" on my browser. I then get a window asking me whether I wish to repost form data. I click yes and hey presto!

by chance, are you using Internet Explorer 4.0 or AOL4.0?

by chance, are you using Internet Explorer 4.0 or AOL4.0? IE4.0 not AOL.

Try downloading Netscape. IE seems to be a big problem for most people here. You can get it for free here: http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html?cp=hom05tdow

Allison, I add my voice to Karen's in encouraging you to use Netscape. I have used 4.0 (Navigator) with no problems since it came out. Upgraded to Communicator but went back to Navigator as it worked much smoother and I did not want those extra bells and whistles.

Might I make a little suggestion? You put the current time on our postings. That is wonderful but a little meaningless since it is Austin time. I talk to people world wide, and it would be so much easier to figure out what time it was for them locally if you used GMT or Zulu. Please??? hope...hope...!

Actually, the time-stamp is Eastern time, I believe.

Maybe not...

Thank you all for your help. I was using Netscape before I upgraded. I shall give it a whirl.

I'll let Terry know about the time request...

Where is the latest Colin Firth conference (118)? It's disappeared from my drool index?

It is there Chris, but there haven't been hardly any postings since early this morning. You can always double check by typing in the direct URL: http//www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/drool/118/new Then at the bottom, in the "redisplay" box you can put in -1 or -2 to back up a couple of comments (if necessary) or as many as you want to doublecheck if you've missed anything.

This one will be clickable: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/drool/118/new

I am having a problem. 34 and 72 have both disappeared from my list. Marcia sent me an adress for 34 but when I click on it all that comes up is the window for posting. The 72 she sent only gives me a couple of messages. I don't know why they no longer appear on the list.

probably has to do with the jump to 2036 twice recently... have the topics reappeared for you yet?

Terry...could this be a help in funding for cf.com? This is a British Theatre website...has a list of all websites pertaining to British Actors. "CALLING ALL WEBMASTERS/MISTRESSES! About.com is launching a new Affiliates programme which will enable those who run related sites to become a part of the About.com communuity and earn a little money into the bargain. Your British Theatre related site could carry a banner or button linking directly to mine, and, if you like, a search engine which will carry out searches on the British Theatre site or even the whole of About.com's 650+ sites, and every time a visitor clicks on the banner, the button or the search box, you get paid. I know that many of you already link to this site - you have my gratitude for that - so formalising the arrangement will give you a little back in return. To find out more, pop along to - http://britishtheatre.about.com/library/weekly/blaffiliates.htm

Terry: Did you receive the check for Aishlings donation to Spring? And my email? Pl. respond..either here or email. Thanks, evelyn

He responded to me and it is taken care of - or do you still wish information from Terry??? (For those reading this in the far future, Terry was asked and responded to me and I sent the thank you note - thanks to Evelyn's diligance.)

Although I am not a voting member, I agree that a discussion like this would bring more meaningful results sooner on springcom. Not all the members log on to Drool daily as we.I shall take the initiative and transfer Terry's remarks there now.

I have serious difficulties with posting on board 126. I am just testing my connection to "submit" function here.

No problem! So why 126 isn't working???

126 works for me, Arami

How's your connection to Spring? To Austen.com? To firth.com?

I can get to Austen.com finally :)

Great! We worked through this today, didn't we Ann? How's your connection to http://www.austen.com ? http://www.spring.net ? http://www.firth.com ? http://www.bridgetsequel.com ?

Question: When will I be able to key in spring.net/yapp-bin.....instead of the numbers ,and get this site. I keep getting the old digihost one.

Austen.com is working. However this page http://www.austen.com/board/index.cgi is not. Can you find out why?

I'll look in to this, it should be very soon when you get this site by name Evelyn. Probably permissions problems.

the tea room is down too (is that with spring too?? not sure)...

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to change my email address without resiging and re-registering?

I can tell you what worked for me. I clicked on Main Menu at the bottom of this page, then on View/Modify Preferences. The next screen had a place to change email. The URL for that page is http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/userinfo However, I hadn't ever posted when I changed my email address. Good luck.

MaryAnn, thanks for that info. Unfortunately when I got there it did not seem to want to change my email. I got some random words which implied that I was not in a conference and then an error message!! Terry are you out there - can you help?

I'll need to do some testing on this Allison, for now I'd just get another sign on, but I'll look in to it and see how this is done. Email me your new email address and I may be able to do it manually. Or just post it here as a response and I'll get it next time I read though this topic.

Thanks for your help Terry.

What was the solution?

I've still got a query out to Kaylene, so it's still open. Hope to close it out in the next couple of days.

But I see that Allison was able to change her email address, so perhaps that "change your preference" thing did work.

But I see that Allison was able to change her email address, so perhaps that "change your preference" thing did work No it didn't work for me. I think Terry just rubbed his magic lantern;-)

Sorry, my mistake. Drive on. ;-)