"David H. Lipman" wrote in
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I don't have an EasyNews account but multiple "other" NSP accounts and
I'm not sure how you are using it with a NSP account.


Easynews have a web service. It's recently been erratic, and on large files,
WGET would be more helpful if it could handle multi-segmented downloads, or
detect a slow line and force a new connection till it was satisfied by the
service it got. (Retrying up to ten times perhaps, count to be reset any time
a good line was lost to another bad one, so that only if things were
deparately bad would it quit flogging a dead horse).

(Re referrers and user-agents, several browsers can change those, and
Proxomitron is especially good. I'm going to reinstate that here after some
absence because it's so much better at cookie filtering than most browsers,
and is browser independent too.)