As you will see I haven’t been blogging for a while. This hasn’t been for want of trying, but for reasons I still haven’t managed to fathom out, it has taken almost 6 weeks to get a workable Internet connection. Part of the problem appears to be that AOL, the company I was using for a temporary dial up connection, appeared to be swallowing messages from PIPEX, my broadband provider. They weren’t in the Spam folder, they just were not arriving at all. As a consequence I may be paying for two connections – I’m not sure because those messages have vanished into the ether too.
By the time I had a phone line up and running – which took almost two weeks – the back log of e-mails was such that it wasn’t worth attempting to read them via a very slow dial up connection. I’m over 7km from the exchange so even my broadband is slow by comparison to my old house and dial up is almost unworkable.
I finally got everything working today, signing on to at least 3000 e-mails, of which I estimate well over 95% are junk, despite filters. This overwhelmed Thunderbird causing all sorts of complications that have still not been fully resolved. Not least of these is that many messages have been downloaded several times because of corrupted inboxes.
I’ve given up trying to read everything, so if you have sent me a message recently and haven’t had a reply my apologies, but it is probably best to send it again.
