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Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow

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"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051FB4B88BDDC8@aca41b29.ipt.aol.com...
> Jim Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>> "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.
>
> Oh, I see.  I use Pineapple which stores my replies until I transfer
> them.  I download each news item one at a time and reply, or don't,
> as soon as I read it.  AFter I'm done with each newsgroup, I do
> transfer the replies for each newsgroup at the same time.

Yeah, that's what I meant, while technically its not doing
it offline in the sense that you stay online while you read
and reply to posts, its reading offline in the sense that
you don’t actually read and reply to each post with the
posts coming down one by one and the reply being
sent back after you hit Send with each reply, all the
replies are uploaded in a batch when you leave the
newsgroup.

Most who do usenet now do it by seeing the list of
headers, clicking on the ones that interest them, see
the client download the body of the posts, read that,
reply if you want to reply and have the reply posted
when you hit the Send button etc.

Some like Hancock don’t even do that, they
use groups.google and do it all online. 

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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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