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Visibility of newsgroup postings
This seems to happen about once a month.
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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP
"Peter T" <peter_t@discussions wrote in message
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X-posted to .excel.programming, .misc, .charting, .worksheet.functions
These Excel groups, indeed all the "microsoft.public" groups are available
via the Communities web interface, "WebNews"
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.aspx
- and via NTTP newsreaders, eg Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Firefox.
Most of the numerous web mirrors, eg Google-groups, can be considered as
NTTP. (In passing, some of the mirrors tend to give a misleading
impression they host these groups themselves.)
Currently, possibly since 13-Oct, most if not all NTTP posts are not being
made visible to WebNews. So anyone posting on WebNews probably will not
see replies from NTTP posters.
NTTP posters seem to be able to see WebNews posts.
A clue as to how the post was sent is to look at the headers, if you see
the following it's probably WebNews and the poster may not see your reply.
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Regards,
Peter T (MVP)
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