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Whiskers wrote in
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> On 2008-02-20, ms wrote:
>> In a windows ng, my occasional threads were getting stupid replies by
>> a poster. I finally called him on it.
>>
>> In a later thread, he replied, but the next day, his post was gone.
>>
>> Recently, I posted a new thread, among the replies, someone responded
>> to his reply in my thread. But I can't see the idiot's post in my
>> thread. I don't use a filter, just the Xnews defaults.
>>
>> Two questions:
>> Isn't it unusual that a ISP allows a poster to delete his post? I
>> can't do it in .
>
> Not quite accurate
>
OK, is that fairly common in ISP's? In the past with a different ISP, I
could not delete my post.

>> How can a poster respond in a tread, be visible to others, but not to
>> me, when I'm not using a filter?
>>
>> ms
>
> The obvious answer is that you have your newsreader set to not display
> articles which you have read (or 'marked as read').
>
No, I see all articles I've already read.

Thanks to all, think I can fix the issue.

ms