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Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow

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Jim Thomas wrote:
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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.

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.

/BAH

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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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