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Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006Did the others not see my posting?
I'm curious..... Tonight at 8:10 an original posting was made. At 8:15 I posted a response. Between 8:15 and 10:15 several more postings were made in response to the original, these additional postings effectively stating the same thing as I had stated. My question then is did those persons who posted responses subsequent to mine not see the response I made? As a possible clarification, all of the postings were made to a single newsgroup.  SignatureJames Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com >I'm curious..... > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >My question then is did those persons who posted responses subsequent to mine >not see the response I made? Probably not. USENET is a store-and-forward system, and it's pretty far from instantaneous. Jim SignatureIf you use the term "virii" to describe viruses, you are a schmuck. > I'm curious..... > > Tonight at 8:10 an original posting was made. I assume it was by you. The only posting I see here that was originally by you is the 'Bounced Mail' one that has a timestamp of 6:15 PST for me. I see no other posts originating from you on Supernews. Or I misunderstand as I nearly always do. Do you have a message reference? leo Signature<http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/> >> I'm curious..... >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > leo Leo, The "original posting" I was referring was not made by me, but I was the first respondent. The topic in question was "Parallels only runs on Intel Macs?" My query was brought about by the fact that several others responded to that original posting with answers that were substantially the same as mine. Jim SignatureJames Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com > The "original posting" I was referring was not made by me, but I was the > first respondent. The topic in question was "Parallels only runs on Intel > Macs?" My query was brought about by the fact that several others responded > to that original posting with answers that were substantially the same as > mine. I'll check it and give you a list of people in order from my server. TJ TaliesinSoft Dave Balderstone Barry Margolin Randall Ainsworth Howard S Shubs Ura Dippschit Andreas Rutishauser I have TJ at 6:10 PM and Mr. Rutishauser at 9:44 PM. You were at 6:15 PM as you say. Mr. Balderstone was at 6:21 PM. Mr. Margolin was at 6:31 PM and so forth. Your post was definitive but may not have propagated to other servers before others responded. Also, I'm ashamed to say, I occasionally like to add my two bits to an already answered post. leo Signature<http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/> > I'm curious..... > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > My question then is did those persons who posted responses subsequent to mine > not see the response I made? It's very likely that they did not. There's absolutely no guarantee of the timing or ordering of message propagation among Usenet hosts. And there are probably already other responses to your post that I'm essentially reiterating. G SignatureWhat I write is what I mean. I request that anyone who decides to respond please refrain from "disagreeing" with something I didn't write in the first place. > I'm curious..... > Tonight at 8:10 an original posting was made. > At 8:15 I posted a response. > Between 8:15 and 10:15 several more postings were made in response to the > original, these additional postings effectively stating the same thing as I > had stated. > My question then is did those persons who posted responses subsequent to mine > not see the response I made? Probably not. Either it had not arrived at their server; some people download and upload news in 'batch' mode from their server; others do not read every article in a thread before reflying; perhaps your article never arrived at their server. Usenet is like that. Axel |
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