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Reply to message from Marlof Bregonje <askforit@thenewsgroup.address.
invalid> (Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:05:26) about "Re: Newsreader!":

MB> Reply to message from "Sitruc" <sitruc@127.0.0.1> (Wed, 12 Jan
MB> 2005 23:41:
MB> 35) about "Re: Newsreader!":
>> I normally just remember the time and date of the last post I read.
>> Pretty cryptic but it works for me.

MB> Same here. Usually when I have both my PPC and my notebook available
MB> again I just do a last sync with the one I worked on last, and with
MB> the new one, and mark the newsgroup read on the new one. Then I pick
MB> it up from there.


I guess I'm the odd guy here. I read newsgroups _only_ on my PDA precisely
to avoid these issues!

Bye
Donald E. Stidwell <don.stidwell@nospam.net> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:51:42 -
0500

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Sitruc wrote:
> "dvt" <dvt_spam@psu.edu> wrote in message
> news:eYBYnNA%23EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>How do you avoid reading the same messages twice if you use a desktop
>>newsreader and the PPC newsreader to view the same newsgroups?
>
>
> I normally just remember the time and date of the last post I read. Pretty
> cryptic but it works for me.

I tried that, but it is unreliable. It seems that my server doesn't
always post messages in the order of the time received (or something
like that). So when I used your method, I always seemed to miss a
message or two that was important to me.

--
Dave
dvt at psu dot edu