Hi Lou, I've actually used this program since 1997 anjd it has only been recently that I have had the problems, and it has mainly been when I have telneted in from Comcast, and like I said this is something that has been recent, and since this problem has persisted through today I am planning on taking this laptop down to work tomorrow to see what it does on their network, but it is annoying never the less. I think that I just had one session drop on me in telnet at work last week, but that was it, and the rest of the time when I would type in Pine it would be really slugish, but that is the way our network was as a whole on Friday. When I first noticed the problem it was at someone else's house, and then it got better and now went to this problem,a dn I can't just read through two pages of messages without it dropping the session in Pine, but when I am at the main menu this isn't a problem. On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Louis Kim Kline wrote: > Hi Jeff. > > It has been a long time since I used Pine, but in those days server time > was a more scarce commodity than it is today, and it was common then to > boot someone off after 20 minites to free up the server time for someone > else. I wonder if this is something that is left over from those > days. I'm guessing that they probably haven't reconfigured or paid any > attention to that system in years. > > 73, de Lou K2LKK > > > > At 10:45 AM 11/20/2005 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi everyone, I have posted this issue to the blind-l list, and am still > >trying to figure out this problem out. I currently am getting to this > >E-mail account here via a telnet connection, and I have always found it to > >be very helpful, especially when I am not at my home PC and I want to > >access my mail from some place else. However, I have had a problem when > >telneting in to this account from home and sometimes when I am in Pine. > >What is happening is is that after a period of inactivity this connection > >will stop responding to my commands, and all of the rest of my Internet > >connections are wroking fine. I have done a ping and a tracerout to this > >ISP I am posting from now, but with no luck. I don't have this problem > >from other computers like at work, but this only appears to be a Pine > >issue. Also, I am telneting into here from Comcast, and I am wondering if > >this may be part of the problem? Also, does anyone know of other telnet > >cites I could try out and compare to this one? > > Louis Kim Kline > A.R.S. K2LKK > Home e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Work e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Work Telephone: (585) 697-5753 >