BillW50 wrote:
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Mayayana typed:

The other day I got tired of waiting to log on and decided
to try aioe.org, which doesn't even require registration. I
posted a message and received the error: "Unable to post
because header is more than an hour old." ! I've never seen
an error like that, and it doesn't seem to make sense.


Your clock is one hour ahead which explains that one. And too many
connections means that your newsreader is using too many threads (or is
it ports?) accessing the server. Some newsreaders you can set this and
some you can't. And once you get this error, I think the server gives
you a timeout for an hour (or is it a few minutes?).


Paolo Amoroso has fooled around a *lot* with that clock check. At one time,
it was widened out to around a day, so it wouldn't trip up on
trivial daylight savings errors. If you're seeing that error again,
you'd need to complain over on aioe.news.helpdesk .

"Clock abusers" post in the future, in the hopes their posting
will always appear at the "top" of a date-listed screen. That's
why they do it. And some servers flag such attempts. But in this
case, the check is too tight.

Paul