Posted by dorayme on 01/21/06 04:15

In article
<pan.2006.01.21.00.47.32.962747@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:01:59 +1100, dorayme wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <pan.2006.01.20.18.44.42.168772@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> > Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:41:19 +0000, News wrote:
> >>
> >> > If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I mean
> >> > get any new postings, is there a way to do this without leaving the
> >> > site and returning?
> >>
> >> What site? What do sites have to do with this?
> >
> > OP means whatever he is on when he is reading eg. alt.html postings.
>
> That would be his news client. Does that make this a web site?
>

He said "site", this is a bit vaguer. And the context showed what
he wanted. A guy is contacting his newsgroup and getting
articles, he is reading articles. He is on his computer, reading
articles that have come down, he is on his newsreader program,
and he is very-close-to-being-in-contact/has recently been in
content with a computer that holds the posted articles. It - yes
"it", go figure - feels like being in a big room where we all
come and go, leave messages and hang around or not, we talk to
each other, except that there are a few time delays and stuff.
The room is the site.

> I don't know or care how to do that in Outlook Distress.

Gee, you earthlings are strange...

> History shows
> I'm more than happy to help out with Xnews, Pan and slrn, though. That's
> one reason the first group I do every news run is news.software.readers:
> I dig good news clients.

You are a sensible man. I have not doubted it. And very helpful.
And knowledgeable about fish. Relax. Go fishin' even...

--
dorayme

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