"David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote:
I would have thought that the Google interface was
a better bet than Microsoft's shaky web portal.

It is, IMHO, at least to some degree. Google Groups offers some features that are not available using OE, at least not easily and not equivalently.

However, the issue is: some/many/most messages posted using the MS web server do not seem to propagate onto the Google Groups news server. Yet they are on the MS news server.

(I believe the flaw lies in the MS web server. But I cannot prove that dispositively; and it is beside the point.)

I have been experimenting with this problem for a couple days this week. My conclusion (but really an educated guess) is the problem lies with the communication (whatever that is) between the MS web and news servers. (Note: I cannot rule all potential issues with Google Groups news server. But I have rules some of the obvious ones.)

Whatever the root cause, the fact remains that many recent postings using the MS web server are not see when using Google Groups. But they are visible when accessing the MS news server through a news reader like OE.

That leaves us (me) between a rock and hard place.