Re: Off topic list posting

From: Josh Battles (jbattles@bankfinancial.com)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 15:06:32 EST


I got it now, thanks Jon, you da man!

<jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
news:asgece$pv5$1@bent.twistedbits.net...
>
> "Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote:
>
> : You know, I went to the yahoo page and signed up for the group and
verified
> : my email and all that....i still can't post. grrrr....f'ing yahoo!!!
>
> Josh,
>
> I think you are OK - I just saw a post from you on the dmlofftopic
list -
> probably took a little longer than usual to get from yahoo to the
newsgroup.
> (behind the scenes, posting a message to the newsgroup does not actually
> post it directly to the newsgroup - it actually creates an e-mail message
> which is sent to the list server, which in turn gets sent to the whole
> list, at which point it gets converted into a news article and is posted
> to the newsgroup) :-) A bit of a roundabout journey but it has worked
> so far. :-)
>
> And of course your news reader won't actually pick up the new news
> posts until it refreshes its connection with the server, so that may
> be why you didn't see it. Its there though, and I suspect it should show
> up shortly for you, if it hasn't already.
>
>
>
> --
>
> -Jon-
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