A little off topic (why can't i see my replies)

Bit of strange one this, but sometimes I can post a reply to this group
and then the following day I can't see it on the group, but I can read the
replies that people have made to my posts. I am baffled by this.
It does not seem to do it all the time. Last time was in a reply to "zx1"
post from Chrs. I sent a reply which was then answered but I can't see my
original reply.
I get to the stage that I think did I send that reply ? and then, as if my
magic, I get a reply to my reply I can't see.
Hope that makes some form of sense to you all.
I am sure I will be able to see the replies to this, but not the post
itself.

Cheers folks
GGJ

Oh I should mention that I have not put myself in the blocked sender by
mistake.

 

i had this problem not long ago but after turning it off for 2-3 hours
every thing came back to normal..

 

blimey this time I can't even see my original post
just gets worse

GGJ

 

but are you getting the replys??

 

Sometimes Blueyonder does that but not to my own posts. Does BT have
more than one newsgroup service? BY has a text news which doesn't allow
binaries (obviously) and a full monty doobrie. I use the text service
mainly because it's a bit quicker but sometimes it drops posts.

 

What newsreader are you using? It's possible you are using a custom option
in the view menu, for example I choose to only view unread messages, so when
I refresh the view, all previously viewed messages don't appear.

Ainslie

 

This is not at all uncommon, particularly with Outlook Express. One cure
that works most (but not every) times is to unsubscribe from the group.
Close Outlook Express. Open Outlook Express again and re-subscribe to the
group. It also helps if you can find the folder where OE stores your
emails etc. and look for the file storing the news group (It will be called
alt.autos.peugeot.vbx) and delete it before resubscribing. You can find
out where OE stores the files by clicking Tools/Options/Maintenance/Store
Folder. One other tip is to create a folder in My Documents (call it
Outlook Express, Emails or whatever you like) and then use the Store Folder
option to tell OE to start storing your email files in it. This makes
backing up much easier as emails will be done along with the rest of My
Documents. Next time you start OE after making that change it will move
the files to the new folder.

 

What people don't realise is that usenet posts are ephemeral. Old
posts, or even current ones, are only visible through bodies like
Outlook Express and Google which capture and store posts to the
thousands of groups in the usenet. There is no giant usenet server out
there. in fact there are a number of bodies which perform this role.
So your post to any group is probably stored in a dozen different
places around the world. So the sorts of problem you describe are
probably attributable to the body through which you access the group.
So try others. I have rarely experienced problems with Google.

 

Many thanks for all your replies, I will be trying them out later, so if I
vanish from the news group forever then you know I have made a right cock up
and lost my patience and dumped the pc in the bin.
Hope to post later.
GGJ

 

yep I get the reply's .
GGJ