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Re: Whatever happened to the 'Cancel Message' option?

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occam wrote:
> In my case [OP] it is invariably a case of  malfunctioning of TB and /
> or my USENET provider.  Very often, I 'send' my message. TB is seen to
> be 'Assembling the message', but then nothing happens, or there is a
> message saying the 'Message could not be sent'.

I'm familiar w/ a form of that.

In the relationship between Tb and my NSP, during a type of inactivity, 
Tb 'times out', as it doesn't keep the transaction process w/ the NSP 
alive.  That timing out may or may not be accompanied by a notification.

In any case, when I've been inactive, I use the little icon in the 
status bar for online/offline, and click to go offline, then again 
online. This 'refreshes' my transactional status w/ the NSP.

If I don't do that, and Tb/NSP have 'lost contact' then the sending of a 
msg results in a 'assembling message' condition that is NOT sending; 
whereas the refreshing brings about a 'connecting with' condition and 
sending is successful.

However, in my case as described above, the problem and its resolution 
are NOT 'opaque' but transparent; I can tell what is going on when a 
message isn't getting sent properly, 'tho' I can't always tell when the 
contact is being lost.

I /can/ tell when a message isn't being sent; I can't always tell when 
the timing out actually occurs.

-- 
Mike Easter

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