In a message to Anthony about mail, Paul said:

AM> connected with V42, then the problem is most likely at your
AM> end, unfortunately.  What if one of us try sending you a

PE> ???

What are you questioning?  What I was inferring was that because the
connect was V42 (i.e. data corrected and therefore verified from modem
to modem), the most likely cause is problems such as interrupt latency
at your PC end, with characters being lost between your modem and your
PC.  An occasional problem under DOS sessions in OS/2 or when no 16550
is enabled, and other things.  Does your mode command enable the 16550
fifo?  It should have the parameter "buffer=on", if not.

AM> I do remember though, that at about the same time, the
AM> processing speed of the .reps went from instantaneous (all
AM> messages processed as fast as V32b could send the
AM> confirmation/details line for each message) to rather slow,

PE> I wasn't aware of that.

I didn't make any fuss about it because it still isn't slow as such,
just nothing like the blindingly fast reply processing that used to be
the case.

AM> about the speed of a 2400 modem, as a guage. I don't know if
AM> you changed something in the OLR door or what, but it's
AM> still slow compared to what it used to be. :(

PE> Would that have been when I opened up the limits on the messagebase?

Yeah, that might have been it.  When was that?  I don't have much of a
memory for this sort of thing, but it was possible 6-8 weeks ago,
maybe even more.  Yeah, could be 8-10 weeks...

PE> BTW, I woke up at about 10 or 11 am today, and
PE> arrived at work at 1.15PM, and left at 11PM (12AM
PE> yesterday) so I am working strange hours which is why you
PE> didn't have any luck ringing back in the afternoon.  I left

Huh?  I didn't ring this afternoon...  For the last few weeks, I've
been calling in the late evening, except for weekends when anything
goes...

PE> home with the system still polling, but it reached it's
PE> poll limit with Dave being busy all the time.  This sucks,
PE> but that's life.  BFN.

Yeah, don't worry too much about it... 

'tnt, Anthony.