Hi Jon, Nice piece! I'll have to check it out if I ever get out to Forest Hill :-)
Can you tell us which actual feed you are requesting, what your user agent string is, and what ISP you are coming through? I might be able to check out whether it is any at our end. It really should be fine though, the problem might be at your ISP or some firewall somewhere. Also, what error message are you getting when the feed fails? Another idea could be to try using feeds.bbc.co.uk/(...) instead of www.bbc.co.uk/(...) Actually,. It would be great if you could all start doing this! It's nicer for our stats system and gives us the opportunity to move the serving of our feeds to a different server setup in the future. Regards, Brendan. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Thomson > Sent: 03 March 2006 09:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM > > Hi there, > > I'm a newbie to the list but have used backstage for a while > to power an artwork called decorative newsfeeds: > http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnewsf.html > http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnewsffh.html > > Here's the deal though. I am exhibiting it in New York State > at the moment and it ran for a few days then was blocked. > As far a I can tell friends in Chicago, San Francisco and New > York couldn't see it either unless they looked 'in browser > and at our server' which made me think it wasn't an > individual block --the piece certainly makes no more demands > on bbc rss than any news ticker would. > > I switched to 'world_edition' after speaking with someone at > BBC but still no joy. In the end I had to set up a proxy and > forward the news to the installation via our webserver in UK > > I was wondering though if anyone had a reasonable explanation > for why they should be blocked in the states? Even > 'world_edition' it would seem. It happens also to be running > in Sweden now just fine too. > > Idle curiosity really but thanks in advance, > > best wishes, > > Jon Thomson > > > > > On 3 Mar 2006, at 00:40, Kirk Northrop wrote: > > > Nick B wrote: > >> You obviously fixed it. I then left as every hour was too annoying. > >> Can I get an update when I want ... e.g I want every 3 > hours between > >> 7am and 12am... > >> Just a thought. Other than that, quite okay, it started > working the > >> last few days. > > > > Indeed, works fine(ish) here too, but hourly is a bit much ;) > > > > -- > > From the North, this is Kirk > > > > www.noisetosignal.org > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ > > mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > > archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
