Re: Can't find response to question
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:42:01 -0700, BrotherRaphael
<warthpublishing@hotmail.com> wrote:
>When i get a notice that my question has been responded to, I can't find the
>response even when i search using the exact question?
To see new posts you have to refresh or get new headers. The exact
method and term varies from application to application.
Also remember that posts to newsgroups are very different than a web
page that has a static location where everybody goes to the same URL
to read the content. In newsgroups there is a network of news servers
that peer with each other with them constantly exchanging copies of
posts the others don't have. So if you get some email that somebody
responded and you don't see it in the newsgroup yet and you've got new
headers, could just be it hasn't arrived on YOUR news server yet. How
long that process takes depends on your news server, who it peers with
the source of the reply and general network conditions. The time a new
post shows up on some other news server can vary from a few seconds to
hours, and in extreme cases even show up days later and rarely not at
all for a host of reasons.
Most application allow you to sort how headers appear. You can use
threaded view where all posts in a single thread automatically get
linked to each other (easy to find replies this way) to sorting by
date, author, etc..