Subject: help-- error message

From: [email-masked] (SUZANNE FORTIN)
Date: 6 Jan 1996 01:52:00 GMT

Hi

I'm curious. I was in my mail reader, reading the newsgroups to which I
subscribe. I tried posting, but an error message came up: "error-- no
space left on device writing article". The message did not post.

What does that mean? How can I fix the problem?

I can post with my USENET reader, except it's just a little bit more of a
pain to go to USENET. 

Please e-mail me.

Thank you very kindly.

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From: Gordon or Connie Marigold <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 20:40:07 -0600

Hello,

The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago.  I assumed it was 
just a problem with the local "whatever" is handling mail, and I think I 
must have been right as it was fine again when I tried half an hour later.

If anyone really knows, please post to the group.  TIA  Connie

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 09:56:18 +0000 (GMT)

The chances are very high that this error message actually originates 
from the Usenet News server you are using, and Pine is merely reporting 
to you the error message the news server reported to it.

This type of message occurs when the news server's disk where articles 
are stored becomes full.  When this happens you can still read news from 
the server, but it will not accept new articles being posted to it (and 
new articles from other linked servers will also be suspended).

When some disk space is released, typically by the overnight clean-up job 
or the News Administrator person leaping into action, the server will 
again start accepting articles from people.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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