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From: Rob Wise <rob@ugh.net.au>
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Cliff Addy wrote:

> Every so often, I'll notice our server is working harder than usual.  
> I'll log in and find a copy of pine consuming 80-90% of the cpu time.  If 
> not caught, it will go on like this for hours.  The user is not logged 
> in, it may be caused when a user loses their intetnet connection.  
> However, I lose my connection all the time in pine and it never happens.  
> In fact, 95% of the time, it's the same user.

What version of pine are you running?  If its below 3.95 then its upgrade 
time :)

I used to have this problem with older version of pine.  I don't know 
exactly what the problem was, only that upgrading pine made it go away.

Rob