Re: New to this newsgroup.

In article <34BA5FB1.63A8_at_aol.com>, raiden <lordrai844_at_aol.com> wrote:
>Perhaps the news group server you are using at home does the
>updates less frequently compared to the news server you have at
>work .
>
>As far as I know these servers does synchronized postings
>frequently to update of their contents ...
>
>Don't worry ... even if you didn't see the thread you were
>looking for they will surely come out later .

Not true. The system is so far from "perfect" that there are many ISP's (Internet Service Providers) that don't even propagate the proper newsgroups. There are bottlenecks because the articles are being copied from one computer to the next, and it only takes one overloaded computer to make postings invisible to much of the world.

I've noticed Compuserve is particularly bad for this group.

The websites www.dejanews.com and www.altavista.com allow you to search for threads, and often have the most complete collection of posts. The Oracle groups have such a high participation I that many ISP's cycle the postings ridiculously fast. So, if you have a particular question, you might want to search on it with dejanews before posting, including both the "new" and "old" databases.

Also, you shouldn't crosspost most questions between the various oracle groups.

To find out more about newsgroups, see the news.admin.* groups.
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>Mabel wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>> I am newbie to this group. I would like to post some questions and to
>> answer some of them because I think it is really interesting. But I have
>> one server News at home and another server news at work.
>> I saw that if I post something from my work (DNS conexion) I cannot see it
>> at home ( I use a modem ) and viceversa. Why?.
>> I also at home I have more messages than I can see at work.
>> If you know how it works please answer me.
>>
>> Mabel
>> Oracle Programmer-Analyst

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