Message-ID: <69e15cc6@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <57Gcncn7YoJ1tn30nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10rpaf9$1bieb$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 17 Apr 2026 08:03:50 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 29 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85745 Rich wrote: > c186282 wrote: >> Next time my connection gets really bad, I had >> this idea of just writing a few-line ping script >> that independently helps keep the server connection >> alive. > > tin times out the NNTP connection after a short period, and > automatically reconnects when something happens that needs the > connection. I'm on FIOS, so I've not had the actual network drop on > tin to know for sure, but the fact that it already handles "up" and > "down" of the TCP connection implies it would reconnect after a network > outage glitch as well. My damn internet is up and down all the time and Tin probably handles it better than most programs, though there are some bugs. There's one I really should report, but there's an unknown extra detail required to reproduce it that I haven't spent the time trying to pin down yet. It's surprising how many programs handle internet connection drop-outs really badly though, and don't get me started about modern Javascript-heavy webpages that expect to be downloading and uploading things immediately so fall apart at the slightest network glitch (often taking your entered/uploaded information down with them) and provide zero user feedback. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#