Time for a new newsgroup?

[Sean Kelly]

John Reimer wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:40:29 +0900, Mike Parker wrote:
> 
>> Mark T wrote:
>>> Does anyone else use the Web interface to read this newsgroup?
>>>
>>> The old one was ok but the PHP News Reader is pretty worthless.
>>> In fact I hardly ever visit this group because of that.
>>>
>>> Maybe just create a new D newsgroup under google groups which would
>>> have way more capabilties.
>>>
>>>    comp.lang.d  would be nice but it seems that it is really hard
>>> these days to start a usenet group [of course comp.lang.deadlongago
>>> is still out there.]
>> Why not just set it up a reader locally on your system and be done with 
>> it? Thunderbird is great.
> 
> I used to use Thunderbird, but it had some strange issues with phantom
> posts now and again.  It wasn't bad... but it wasn't great either. :)

I've run into this as well.  I think it may be related to canceled 
posts.  One trick I've found to fix this for at least some situations is 
to post something, open it and read it in Thunderbird, then cancel it.


Sean