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Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow

From "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow
Date 2015-09-14 04:22 +1000
Message-ID <d5lt6vFsb2sU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (16 earlier) <alpine.LNX.2.02.1509121117030.14090@darkstar.example.org> <d5j9jeF8b4oU1@mid.individual.net> <d5jagfF8i21U1@mid.individual.net> <d5jhavFa8joU1@mid.individual.net> <PM00051FA1484E09DC@aca2ddd4.ipt.aol.com>

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"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051FA1484E09DC@aca2ddd4.ipt.aol.com...
> Jim Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:d5jagfF8i21U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> "Jim Thomas" wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in message
>>>
>>>>> But I've seen that change, once I actually read the message, the 
>>>>> number
>>>>> changes to match the actual size of the message.
>>>>
>>>> Not surprising if it initially has just the header and can't
>>>> work out the actual size until it has downloaded it when
>>>> reading online.
>>
>>> Is that common?
>>
>> Is what common ?  Reading online ?  Plenty clearly do that.
>>
>> It's obvious that some like Morten and Barb don't, their posts
>> clearly show up in bursts which shows that they are replying
>> offline but that isn't true of most of the rest of the posters.
>
> You keep saying this but you are wrong.
> I never work on newsgroups off-line.

You do in the sense that your posts show up in a burst.

Morten's do too and since his retain the timestamp of
when he hit the Send, can be a bit of a nuisance when
you read sorted by date, because some from him can
pop up well down the list below ones you have already
read. Yours don’t. 

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all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2015-09-09 19:02 +0000
  Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-10 18:11 +0000
    Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-11 12:48 +0000
      Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-11 09:34 -0500
        Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-12 13:24 +0000
          Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-12 11:17 -0400
            Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-13 04:35 +1000
              Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-12 13:50 -0500
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-13 06:47 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-13 13:43 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-14 04:22 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-14 12:50 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 04:37 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-09-14 19:13 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 09:10 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-13 22:45 +0200
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-12 16:59 -0500
          Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-14 13:32 +0000
            Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 04:46 +1000
              Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-14 19:55 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-14 18:12 -0500
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 09:16 +1000
            Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-15 13:07 +0000
              Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow mrr@sambook.reistad.name (Morten Reistad) - 2015-09-15 16:15 +0200

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