On 4/2/2014 12:12 PM, son_of_flubber wrote:
Every time I open a thread to make a post, or read newly added posts, the 'hit count' is incremented by one.
Not so. That's only true in the world of Google, which only knows what
is happening on the Google News server. RAS is a Usenet group, as such
it can be accessed via hundreds of news servers worldwide. Google
Groups is just one of them!

When you make a post, it propagates to all of the other servers, but
those servers have no reason to to exchange information about how many
people simply view a post.