i've been assuming it had to do something with the total page size. perhaps the the cause is something on the pages themselves, such as a special character that breaks the page. Could this be related to the default character encoding that browsers use, maybe? 

Maybe it also have something with the navigator configuration: I have firefox at office and at home, but as example, at office I can't view all the News archives when at home it is possible... and my personnal PC is not a 'running' machine.... 

what happens if you try this link?
http://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/www.celephais.net/board/view_all_news.php

Or try downloading the page with something else than your browser and open it then. 

It works fine... but from the Func_ link it crashes claiming:

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_all_threads.php

The following error was encountered:

* The request or reply is too large.

If you are making a POST or PUT request, then your request body (the thing you are trying to upload) is too large. If you are making a GET request, then the reply body (what you are trying to download) is too large. These limits have been established by the Internet Service Provider who operates this cache. Please contact them directly if you feel this is an error.

wtf ? 

that link works fine for me. 

links still don't work. It looks like they begin to d/l, then after a short while they get interrupted and I get an error message. 

the first error message is now that there's an ActiveX control on the page that cannot be executed due to my security settings (I've that disabled).

Is this some sort of hijack thing? 

It took so damn long to load I may as well have just gone to the site, which I was going to do anyway to check the message boards, and since we only get one item of news around here a month it was probably the most pointless exercise in which I've ever partaken. 

but people want RSS feeds. And it's web 2.0! 

what could be causing the inability to load the News Archive or View All Threads? It still doesn't work for me and I've tried disabling any filter I normally use.

It's not a big issue, but it'd be nice to know what's causing it. 

No progress, since I can't reproduce it, and the error messages one gets from browsers are usually completely worthless.

Is there anyone out there who gets this problem on ONE computer or browser, but not on another? (such as work vs. home, mac vs. pc, opera vs. firefox?)

And for anyone else, if you're getting the bug, can you report in this thread which browser, version, and OS you're using? 

on top of IE 5.5 running Win95 OSR2. This used to work before, but I didn't notice when it stopped working. I recall Mike W reporting issues when my worked at the time. 

noted that I can d/l those pages (with GetRight) and view them locally without any problem. 

something with RSS? I see that e.g. the main page and this page don't have that, but at least the view_all_news page has it. And I believe RSS was a recent change at Func_. 

Using firefox 2.0.0.3, can load both pages while at home, but cannot load them while at uni(using the same laptop and browser). I remember getting a university service error page complaining about some message being too long. Unfortunately I'm at home at the moment so I can't reproduce the error message or remember the exact phrasing. 

the news archive and discussion archive don't have RSS feed links on them. So I don't think that's the cause. 

since your message seems to be about page size, could you try loading the entire GA thread or similar large thread? Just to see if they fail also? 

I like this article because it was written by a smartass:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0 

It is exactly what I experimented: See post #1077

:P 

I have just opened the news archive on my mobile phone. Using opera and umts access :P
I have also tried at home and at work on laptop and pc and on 3 different browsers. Everything works for me. 

... it comes from network administrator access restriction rules: if the loading page is to large according to administrator rules, then you are not allowed to view it... At home I don't have this issue cause there are no restriction...
In anyway I will ask my network administrator to confirm... 

ERROR: Error message number 42

wtf? I get this error when I try to post in MadFox's new map thread 

is it possible your IP address changed between viewing the loading the thread, and submitting your post?

Becuase that's what that error means (i made it sound cryptic to give spambot writers less information.) 

is it possible your IP address changed between viewing the loading the thread, and submitting your post?

I meant to say: is it possible your IP address changed between loading the thread, and submitting your post? 

wow, how that can be? I don't use any hiding IP programs