"zarathustra" wrote in message
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Hi Frank, & thanks for your input. I don't believe they're 'ghosts' as my
own posts in this very group are not visible - even after resetting the
whole
group & re-downloading all headers. Are you referring to the blueyonder
server? I haven't had this problem with it before, but will wait 24hours
or
so before wailing further.

Thanks all for your input - this is a strange one...


As Frank said this is most likely a server sync problem, if they are not
ghosts?
Set up a new news account, use msnews.microsoft.com as the server name,
subscribe only to the newsgroup in question and see what you get? I would
put the checkmark back into get headers first for this test, and use 'go to'
to ensure that 50K messages do not come your way:-)

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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]