To Pete, Gord, GS and Ron,

First off... Happy New Year! Second, thanks for responding guy, much
appreciated. The reason I posted my "can you see me" question is because
when Microsoft closed down their newsgroup servers, I lost access to these
newsgroup. Then I found a free service that allowed access to them, but it
only worked for one day. A month or so later, I decided to "try again" with
the same company and this time my ability to access the newsgroups stayed
active. Then I spottily posted some messages and maybe, over time, one or
two received a response of any kind. That got me to wondering if my messages
were really "out there" or just in some local servers or something that the
company I am using had access to. In the old newsgroups, it was not uncommon
for my messages to receive one, two or more replies of some kind or other,
but since Microsoft closed down their newsgroup servers and I have been
using this free access company, the majority of the messages I post receive
no replies of any kind... that just got me to wondering if the newsgroup
community at large was actually seeing them or not.

Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)