Jack Painter wrote:
My server will not download the reply I made to this post. Ater new posts
appeared and mine did not, I resent (twice). I understand they all did post,
and I apologize for resending what was already there. If anyone knows what
setting could be casuing them to be invisible (to me) I would appreciate
learning how to fix it. Even deleting the entire group and downloading all
headers and message bodies did not show my posts in this thread.

Best regards, and maybe someone could reply to this invisible-to-me post,
LOL.

Jack

Everything depends on your news server. When you post a message it is
cued for posting with all the other current postings. Depending on how
busy the server is, it may not be able to process new postings until it
expires a bunch of old ones, to make space. Then it processes latest
postings and sends it's information off to other servers for posting.
The other servers have the same thing to deal with. If they are busy
they may even refuse a packet of postings and your server would have
to try again later.

My news server is somewhat local to me and I see my postings within
a few seconds of posting. But there are some news servers where I won't
be able to see my post show up for 6 or 7 hours. Google groups is like
this.

I just take it on faith that my posting got out. Even when I see it on
my news server, I have no idea when it will reach any of the other
servers.

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Martin E. Meserve

http://www.k7mem.150m.com