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Ghosts?

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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
 
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Bruce Hagen

Flightless Bird
It jumps up and down, but I see it with WinMail in 7. xp.basics is even
worse.


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
 
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Chris S.

Flightless Bird
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:-O7WRhLNALHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?

Yes. 25 at the moment, with hacked WM in Win 7. WMUTIL "Rebuild Database"
usually
cleans them up for me.

Chris
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
THX. Methinks the apes on the serverfarm are running riot again this
holiday weekend...

Bruce Hagen wrote:
> It jumps up and down, but I see it with WinMail in 7. xp.basics is even
> worse.
>
>> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
 
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Tim Slattery

Flightless Bird
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:

>Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?

"Ghost messages" are a result of OE not being coded to the proper
Usenet standards. Other newsreaders do not have this problem.

--
Tim Slattery
Slattery_T@bls.gov
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
 
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Doug W.

Flightless Bird
Nope
==

"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
news:eek:s2a06hnoqli5nf8jpjsnqd79jl4b9hrl4@4ax.com...
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via
>>OE?
>
> "Ghost messages" are a result of OE not being coded to the
> proper
> Usenet standards. Other newsreaders do not have this problem.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Bite me.

Tim Slattery wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
>
> "Ghost messages" are a result of OE not being coded to the proper
> Usenet standards. Other newsreaders do not have this problem.
 
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HeyBub

Flightless Bird
Tim Slattery wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
>
> "Ghost messages" are a result of OE not being coded to the proper
> Usenet standards. Other newsreaders do not have this problem.

Microsoft is the KEEPER and DEFINER of the standard.
 
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Billns

Flightless Bird
On 5/31/2010 8:04 AM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
not in Thunderbird.

Bill
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Did I ask about Tbird? (No.)

Billns wrote:
> On 5/31/2010 8:04 AM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE? not in
>> Thunderbird.
>
> Bill
 
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Jose

Flightless Bird
On May 31, 11:04 am, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?

No ghosts - just old farts!

It is a good thing PA Bear plonked me a long time ago so he will not
see my messages.
 
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Billns

Flightless Bird
On 6/3/2010 12:46 PM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> Did I ask about Tbird? (No.)
>
> Billns wrote:
>> On 5/31/2010 8:04 AM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>>> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
>>> not in
>>> Thunderbird.
>>
>> Bill
>
Well, no, of course not. But you may want to consider switching... <g>

Bill
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Bye-bye, ghosties! <eg>

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG via OE?
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:eSfspl0ALHA.1892@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
Billns <billns@nsverizon.net> typed:
> On 5/31/2010 8:04 AM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>> Anybody else seeing ~23 ghost messages when access this NG
>> via OE? not in Thunderbird.
>
> Bill

Never saw anything even remotely similar, whatever "ghost" messages means.
XP Pro SP3 OE6 IE8 now; used to be IE6/OE6. Sounds like some sort of
corruption or malware.
 
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