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Quilljar

2005-01-30, 11:56 am

I keep getting replies from people whio have read my posts, but my own
posts have not shown up on my own browser. Has anyone any idea how this can
happen? It is intermittent too, ie only happens occasionally.

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Alan White

2005-01-30, 5:52 pm

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:05:14 +0000 (UTC), "Quilljar"
<wykehill-flightsim@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

quote:

>I keep getting replies from people whio have read my posts, but my own
>posts have not shown up on my own browser. Has anyone any idea how this can
>happen? It is intermittent too, ie only happens occasionally.

Try another news server.

This one is highly recommended:-

http://news.individual.net/

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Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam at http://www.ufcnet.net/~alanlesley1/kabcam.htm

Dallas

2005-01-31, 3:59 am

"Quilljar"

quote:

> I keep getting replies from people who have read my posts, but my own
> posts have not shown up on my own browser. Has anyone any idea how this

can

quote:

> happen? It is intermittent too, i.e. only happens occasionally.

You are likely thinking that Usenet is just a giant hard disk out somewhere
on the Internet.

(Correct me if I'm wrong guys.. I seem to remember that this is true ):
Usenet is not a central location but rather a network of drives scattered
all over the world. These drives all mirror the posts we make and depending
on how your ISP is connected to this network your posts show up at different
speeds.

Dallas

Melissa

2005-01-31, 6:54 am

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Hi Dallas,

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:23:37 GMT, you wrote:

quote:

> Usenet is not a central location but rather a network of drives
> scattered all over the world. These drives all mirror the posts we
> make and depending on how your ISP is connected to this network
> your posts show up at different speeds.

I'm far from being an expert in any of this, but I can switch between
the server I regularly use and my ISP provided server, and more often
than not, there will be a noticeable difference in propagation time
between the two servers; both in terms of sending and receiving (and
it's always the non-ISP server that's faster). I haven't switched
ISPs, just servers. This anecdotal experience, having been repeated
several times over the years, has convinced me that the *server*, for
whatever reasons - related to routing and/or whatever - has
*something* to do with speed/reliability, and that it's not just
about the ISP setup alone.

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Melissa

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Carl Frisk

2005-01-31, 6:54 am

Pretty close. It's a network of NNTP servers (with lots of drive space, usually clustered). Messages go into a cue on
your local server before being passed along to the next link in the chain, usually the central server. If your server
is busy, or slow it may take a while. If the next server is busy or slow it may take even longer. Some groups are
moderated. I've once had a message bounce around out there for three days before it showed up. All XP Pro boxes come
with an NNTP server. If you wish to load it and learn more it's in the components section of Add and Remove programs.
Right next to the Web and FTP and SNTP (email) stuff.

One of the main tenants of RFC 977 is the call for a central system so that messages are not redundantly stored all over
the place. In practice there are mirror servers (news caches) usually associated with your ISP. These mirrors are
responsible for relaying messages back and forth.

There are also public servers, private servers and for pay servers.

REF: RFC 977 (February 1986)
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/977/

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....Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com

"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message news:Z1lLd.2523$Nn1.716@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...

quote:

> "Quilljar"
> can
>
> You are likely thinking that Usenet is just a giant hard disk out somewhere
> on the Internet.
>
> (Correct me if I'm wrong guys.. I seem to remember that this is true ):
> Usenet is not a central location but rather a network of drives scattered
> all over the world. These drives all mirror the posts we make and depending
> on how your ISP is connected to this network your posts show up at different
> speeds.
>
> Dallas
>
>

IAIN SMITH

2005-01-31, 5:57 pm

I get this problem too Q and, as you say, it is intermittent. Maybe another
news server is the answer:0))

Iain

"Quilljar" <wykehill-flightsim@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ctj0jp$jfu$1@sparta.btinternet.com...

quote:

> I keep getting replies from people whio have read my posts, but my own
> posts have not shown up on my own browser. Has anyone any idea how this
> can happen? It is intermittent too, ie only happens occasionally.

Jay Williams

2005-03-31, 6:17 pm

Just a thought...
At my office, I get tons of spam (no ISP based spam blocker). I use a
program called Mailwasher to weed out and delete the spam while still on the
server. I've noticed that a lot of the spammers use a false name but your
own email address, I presume in an attempt to get past any spam filters. I
wound up, at one point, telling Mailwasher to treat my email address as that
of a spammer to counter this.

Perhaps you some nefarious individual used your own email address as spam
and as you went down a list, highlighting spam email and blocking the
senders, you blocked it without realizing it..

Also, I had so much spam from btinternet.com at one point, I banned the
entire domain. You may have accidentally done so as well.

Of course, I guess outlook express would not automatically block the same
email from newsgroups, unless it was set to do so. Mine is set to treat
mail and newsgroups differently and maintain a separate block list for each.

"IAIN SMITH" <iainsmith.rugby@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:ctlr1u$4f2$1@sparta.btinternet.com...

quote:

>I get this problem too Q and, as you say, it is intermittent. Maybe another
>news server is the answer:0))
>
> Iain
>
> "Quilljar" <wykehill-flightsim@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ctj0jp$jfu$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>
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