Greetings, This.
In reply to Your message dated Friday, February 15, 2008, 13:43:13,

> Are there any techniques for keeping the connection alive while a longish
> script executes?
> Any suggestions?

Put Your spamming script into CRON and forget about it.


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Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>