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John Wunderlich wrote in
news:Xns9A4A7E99F2F93wunderpsdrscray@:

> ms wrote in
> news:6233fbF217598U1@:
>
>> 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 .
>>
>> How can a poster respond in a tread, be visible to others, but not
>> to me, when I'm not using a filter?
>
> There are several possibilities, you have not provided enough
> information to narrow it down.
>
> First - Once you read an article in Xnews, it is marked as "Read" and
> you will not see it (and all its crossposts) again after closing the
> newsgroup unless you have the "Load Read Articles" box checked in the
> Misc Tab under Setup, or in the group window you reset the group by
> doing a "Clear Read and Keep" (Ctrl-F9), or if you open the group
> "Special" (Ctrl-Enter) and appropriately adjust the settings.
>

I must have long ago set it up to read, as I see previously read
articles, coded with a green icon.

> Second - Once a post is generated, it gets distributed to all the other
> thousands of servers out there. Depending on the quality of your
> newsserver, a specific post may arrive at a time when the server is
> "swamped" and the post may be dropped and you may never see it. Many
> ISPs that host their own newsserver have this problem. A good
> indication of this problem is to look at the completion percentages in
> the binary groups.
>
> Third - It is possible that the poster is cancelling his posts or a
> masquerader is cancelling them for him. A cancellation post is
> distributed around to the thousands of servers just like a normal post.
> Some servers will honor the cancel and some servers won't. [The
> potential does open the door for abuse.] It's possible that your
> newsserver honors those cancels while another poster's newsserver
> doesn't.
>
> I leave it to you to pick which one applies.
>
> HTH,
> John
>

Thanks for a very informative reply.

ms