Why don't I see replies?

[Tony Williams]

I've posted quite a number of messages in the Access newsgroups and use
Outlook Express. However I don't get to see all the replies. I know I get
some because if I log on to the Microsoft site and check for the messages
through their site I see replies to my posts there that don't appear in
Outlook. This causes me embarrassment because I then repost only to be told
someone has already replied. I know this is an Access newsgroup but nearly
all of my posts are on Access and I wonder whether anyone has experienced
the same problem. Could this be my ISP?
Thanks
Tony

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I've posted quite a number of messages in the Access newsgroups and
use Outlook Express. However I don't get to see all the replies. I
know I get some because if I log on to the Microsoft site and check
for the messages through their site I see replies to my posts there
that don't appear in Outlook. This causes me embarrassment because I
then repost only to be told someone has already replied. I know this
is an Access newsgroup but nearly all of my posts are on Access and I
wonder whether anyone has experienced the same problem. Could this be
my ISP?

It could be your ISP, or rather, your ISP's news server. Not all news
servers carry all groups, and not all carry all messages in the groups
they do carry. I used to use an ISP that carried only a limited number
of messages in any group.

You can set Outlook Express to use Microsoft's own public news server
for newsgroups it hosts. The server name is msnews.microsoft.com .
This server carries all messages in the official "microsoft.public.*"
groups.

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

I have news.microsoft.com as my server and have no indication I'm
missing posts, but I have a different problem: I get many replies
detached from the original post (subject starting with Re:, original
post included in the reply quite often, so no doubt it is actually a
reply). I had that when I used Outlook Express, and I still have it
using Mozilla Thunderbird (MS's way of penalizing me?) so it's not a
newsreader thing. Anyone else having the same issue?

Nikos

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I have news.microsoft.com as my server and have no indication I'm
missing posts, but I have a different problem: I get many replies
detached from the original post (subject starting with Re:, original
post included in the reply quite often, so no doubt it is actually a
reply). I had that when I used Outlook Express, and I still have it
using Mozilla Thunderbird (MS's way of penalizing me?) so it's not a
newsreader thing. Anyone else having the same issue?

I'm not having any such problem, except for those rare occurrences when
someone replies to a message that is so old tht it has "aged off the
server". I don't suppose it's just that you have your newsreader set up
to hide messages that are marked as read?

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

Dirk,

No, I have no such setting on my newsreader. It's probably the ageing
thing. Thanks for replying.

Nikos

 

[Nikos Yannacopoulos]

Dirk,

I looked closer, and that's not the case. Some answers may be
disconnected from the OP even thought the latter is just a couple of
posts further up - or a couple of dozen, but it's definitely still
there, I can see it... so it's gotta be something else. I laso noticed
that it tends to happen in the microsoft.public.access.reports NG much
more that anywhere else.

Anyone else seen this?

Nikos

 

[Tony Williams]

Thanks for all your input guys I'm going to try the Microsoft server
Tony