[Manifold-l] download problems - still

[JBurn_GIS]

While I'm sure it must be frustrating, I'm still not sure we can say that its Manifold's server that is the issue.

I have downloaded it three times before without a problem (testing on different machines etc.), and after receiving your email, in my inbox just now - I downloaded it again without incident.  It arrive, and I extracted it fine ... I even "re-installed" it to see if there was any corruption.  This email was sent right after so the timestamp will tell you when I did this.  Are you sure your ISP doesn't have anything in place that might be causing a problem?

Cheers.

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James Burn BSc, GIS(pg), AScT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kingsley at Synix 
  To: 'Manifold List Server' 
  Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:42 AM
  Subject: [Manifold-l] download problems - still


  Hi List and Dimitri

  Given that you Dimitri doesn't seem to believe there are problems with the manifold 
  server, i tried yet again and this time got the error message:-

  Could not save the file <name> as the source file could not be read.

  This is different to the last 5 failures I had - but the source file is not on my computer 
  - its on the manifold server. Why could it not be read? A manifold server problem?????
  This attempt was over a month from my last 5 and it can hardly be due to a corrupt cache.
  Once again, you are merely wasting my download quotas as something is badly broken.
  Please send me this on CD - your website is far too unreliable!

  As I have said before - I do not have ANY other problem on any other server I use - not 
  even the microsoft SP2 download of 250Mbyte 2 weeks ago. Worked first time.

  QUESTION: Why does the internet discriminate against only traffic coming from manifold and 
  not all the other download traffic which works?
  ANSWER: It doesn't. It's not the internet doing this - its an unrobust setup of the 
  manifold server.

  Please stop pretending there is no problem. Sure it works sometimes - maybe if you are all 
  on the same continent. But there are many reasons why FTP servers fail (too many 
  simultaneously open connections is one that microsoft themselves acknowledge as a bugfix 
  for VISTA).
  Someone needs to check why there are so many complaints and retries. Such things are very 
  rare on most other download sites, but surprisingly common on manifold. WHY?

  Kingsley Burlinson  Darwin Australia
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