Re: why CF not SD ?

Mark B. wrote:
"John Bean" <waterfoot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u3cnh3l0dv38ieqff3ia9g7kc0v86jo3le@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:10:47 GMT, "Jürgen Exner"
<jurgenex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

shane_farmington wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:54:47 -0700, Beladi Nasralla
Why so many people got excited about my posting, and wrote 80+
postings ?
Well, I can see only 3 postings under this subject, the one I am replying to
being the root.
In that case your newsreader is broken.

Ah, you are using OE6. Yep, that explains it - "broken" is a
feature rather than a fault in the case of OE :-(


I'm using OE6, never have a problem seeing all the posts. I think the problem is in his provider's news server.

Mark


Exactly! Not all news servers get data from the same servers, and this can result in vast differences in what messages are available.
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