Triple posts?

Now that's funny!!! Intentional or not... ;-)

I guess it's only funny if Hai had left his duplicate post in.... It's
not so funny anymore... :-))

three-eight-hotel wrote:
I guess it's only funny if Hai had left his duplicate post in.... It's
not so funny anymore... :-))

I could not believe my eyes when I saw that Google had double posted
my reply on the very subject. I hit the delete button pretty quick but
it was there long enough for you to see. Yes, it was pretty funny.

Hai Longworth

Silly me, I thought that this was about cross-posting. Never experienced a
multiple post. OTOH, as someone who visits .ifr, .piloting, and .student
every day, it bugs me when I see the same message in all three threads. I'm
sure that there must be some advantage to doing this, but I can't figure out
what it is.

Bob Gardner

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Anyone else seeing multiple posts?

Another interesting thing -- posts I sent using GoogleGroups from two days
ago are now showing up!

Whassup?
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"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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Silly me, I thought that this was about cross-posting. Never experienced a
multiple post. OTOH, as someone who visits .ifr, .piloting, and .student
every day, it bugs me when I see the same message in all three threads.
I'm sure that there must be some advantage to doing this, but I can't
figure out what it is.

As long as the posts are cross-posted correctly (and generally they have
been), then once you've marked as read the post in one newsgroup, it should
be marked as read in the others. As long as you're using the "next unread
message" to move from one new post to the next, the same post appearing
multiple times shouldn't impede your progress.

Not that most of the cross-posting is justified, just that there are ways to
minimize the impact.

Pete

("Peter Duniho" wrote)
[snip]
As long as the posts are cross-posted correctly (and generally they have
been), then once you've marked as read the post in one newsgroup, it
should be marked as read in the others. As long as you're using the "next
unread message" to move from one new post to the next, the same post
appearing multiple times shouldn't impede your progress.


Agreed 100%.


Montblack

Peter Duniho wrote:

As long as the posts are cross-posted correctly (and generally they have
been), then once you've marked as read the post in one newsgroup, it should
be marked as read in the others.

That's the way it used to work for me in far-off times. It doesn't work that way
now. I'm using Thunderbird, so, if there's a setting I should make to accomplish
this, I'm all ears (or eyes, as the case may be).

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:QjHwf.8427$Lh1.5492@trnddc01...
That's the way it used to work for me in far-off times. It doesn't work
that way now.

No, that can't be. Everyone is so in love with Mozilla, Firefox,
Thunderbird, etc. that it cannot be possible that it doesn't work just as a
normal person would want it to straight "out of the box".



I'm using Thunderbird, so, if there's a setting I should
make to accomplish this, I'm all ears (or eyes, as the case may be).

Sorry...I don't have a real answer. Never used it. However, as much fun as
it is to make fun of Thunderbird, I think it must have some way to correctly
deal with cross-posts. Hopefully someone who has actually used the program
can tell you what that is.

Pete

Hopefully someone who has actually used the program
can tell you what that is.

I use Netscape, built on the same engine. No setting to skip crossposts
you've read. I'm open to suggestions for newsreaders with this (highly
desirable) feature.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Anyone else seeing multiple posts?

Another interesting thing -- posts I sent using GoogleGroups from two
days
ago are now showing up!

Whassup?

System was (down/on the glitch) for a few days and some people, such as
myself, clicked send and didn't see the messages come up, so clicked
send again and again. Now the system shows the posts. :^)

The Monk