I read something about a recent usenet merger or buyout affecting GigaNews
and Supernews customers, which might be involved here, since I noticed
something similar today, too, using Earthlink. So I don't think it was
your .Net Framework. :-)

Lil' Dave wrote:
> Using Outlook Express exclusively for newsgroups.
> I download maximum 1000 headers at time per newsgroup.
> Today I noticed in my ISP provider's news servers is downloading 1000
> headers, even if I've downloaded those the day before. Now I have dual
> entry headers (duplicates) of same date, time, originator, and so forth.
> What gives?
> Only thing different that yesterday was updating Net Framework version 1
> via
> windows update.
>
> --
> Dave
>
> How about a tax to support any military conflict/police action over 3
> months
> old?
>
> An actual war, we can do what's been done in the past.