Bill Yanaire wrote:[color=blue]
> Bill Yanaire wrote:[color=green]
>> sherwin dubren wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On my copy of this thread there is no post from an entity named
>>>> Sherwin Dubren dated August 9 at 1:48 AM, or anything differing from
>>>> that time by an integral number of hours (i.e., a number of time
>>>> zones).
>>>
>>> Get yourself a decent email handler. Thunderbird works for me and I
>>> can clearly see both my posts with it.
>>>
>>> Sherwin[/color][/color][/color]


Here is the message I refer to:

Subject: Re: What's up?
From: sherwin dubren <sherwindu@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:48:44 -0500
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

Spanky de Monkey, ESQ wrote:[color=blue]
>
>
> So FUCIWIT, what advice are you looking for?
>
>[/color]
Gee, it so pleasant dealing with such considerate people.

My problem concerns losing preferences to particular web
sites like tvguide.com and wunderweather.com whenever my
Vista Home Premium system reboots.


I do not erase associated cookies, and certain sites do
seem to retain their data. Vista help function says there
are at least three categories of cookies. Are any of these
erased automatically on reboot? I have not set up any kind
of automatic reseting, as far as I know.

Much of my frustration and wrong posting comes from problems
I had getting to this forum through microsoft's help screens.
I could not post anything, even though I had an account set
up for that purpose. I later realized that I could get to
this forum where I recognized the threads as being the same
as those on the microsoft directed forum. I'm sorry for
the obscure posting I made, but did not expect the wrath
of g_d to come down on me.


Sherwin

It clearly shows that I did post my question on August 8.
at 1:48, and it was repeated in a reply from Spanky at
8:20 that morning. All this B.S. about my not posting
the question, is just that. I'll never get my question
answered, just a lot of crap from these forum wise guys.

Sherwin

sherwin dubren submitted this idea :[color=blue]
> Gene E. Bloch wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> On my copy of this thread there is no post from an entity named Sherwin
>> Dubren dated August 9 at 1:48 AM, or anything differing from that time by
>> an integral number of hours (i.e., a number of time zones).[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Get yourself a decent email handler. Thunderbird works for me and I
> can clearly see both my posts with it.[/color]
[color=blue]
> Sherwin[/color]

I've got a decent e-mail handler. I use it for e-mail.

I use a *newsreader* for news. In fact, I have two decent (actually
excellent) newsreaders, and the post you keep referring to is not shown
by either. Note that other people don't see it either.

And just for your information, your post doesn't exist here in
Thunderbird's copy of this thread either. I don't list Thunderbird
among the two excellent newsreaders I refer to above, mainly because I
rarely use it, except to refute dodos.

Apparently you have a local copy of that post on your computer, since
you tried to send it from there, but it is not out in cyberspace.

I see that, in another post, you copied what you claim is the missing
post; I also see that you have not provided a message ID for the
putative post. As far as I am concerned, your post does not exist until
you provide that ID.

--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

Gene E. Bloch <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:

[color=blue]
>I use a *newsreader* for news. In fact, I have two decent (actually
>excellent) newsreaders, and the post you keep referring to is not shown
>by either. Note that other people don't see it either.[/color]
[color=blue]
>And just for your information, your post doesn't exist here in
>Thunderbird's copy of this thread either. I don't list Thunderbird
>among the two excellent newsreaders I refer to above, mainly because I
>rarely use it, except to refute dodos.[/color]
[color=blue]
>Apparently you have a local copy of that post on your computer, since
>you tried to send it from there, but it is not out in cyberspace.[/color]

That would be more likely to be a function of the NNTP server you're
connecting to than the client you're using. Sherwin's posts might be
on the server that he connects to, but not (yet) propagated to others.
Or maybe you're connecting to Microsoft's server, and they've filtered
out Sherwin's post. (They have *very* aggressive spam filters, you
never know what will get snagged in them.)

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
[email]Slattery_T@bls.gov[/email]
[url]http://members.cox.net/slatteryt[/url]

Here's what Tim Slattery wrote on 8/13/09:[color=blue]
> Gene E. Bloch <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:[/color]

[color=blue][color=green]
>> I use a *newsreader* for news. In fact, I have two decent (actually
>> excellent) newsreaders, and the post you keep referring to is not shown
>> by either. Note that other people don't see it either.[/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> And just for your information, your post doesn't exist here in
>> Thunderbird's copy of this thread either. I don't list Thunderbird
>> among the two excellent newsreaders I refer to above, mainly because I
>> rarely use it, except to refute dodos.[/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Apparently you have a local copy of that post on your computer, since
>> you tried to send it from there, but it is not out in cyberspace.[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> That would be more likely to be a function of the NNTP server you're
> connecting to than the client you're using. Sherwin's posts might be
> on the server that he connects to, but not (yet) propagated to others.
> Or maybe you're connecting to Microsoft's server, and they've filtered
> out Sherwin's post. (They have *very* aggressive spam filters, you
> never know what will get snagged in them.)[/color]

I was responding to what Sherwin Dubren said...

Yes, I agree that it is possible that MS culled a post of his after it
got propagated to other news servers so that it is still visible on one
or more of them; or maybe it never made it to MS, as I assumed.
However, I don't plan to see if I can find his post on some other
server somewhere that is cloning MS.

For one thing, I'm no longer very interested in this thread.

--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com