Author: Mike S.
Date: 16:23:31 01/24/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 17:39:56, paul bedrey wrote: >(...) Anyway its nice to now I'm not the only one having >this problem. Once I had that kind of problem too, and located a proxy server the provider forced me to use, as the reason. It offered outdated file versions often. I had no direct function available to skip this (it was a free provider funded by advertising, but wasn't online for long). Sometimes I could get the new version by repeatedly attempting to access them, IOW hitting F5 or Ctrl-F5 often. Anyway, make sure that you've chosen "search for new file versions: always" in your Internet Explorer options. Under normal conditions, this should be sufficient. And see if you have configured your connection using a proxy server. Maybe it is possible to reconfigure and surf the net without using a proxy (this may be provider dependant). I wonder why providers offer proxy servers - sometimes as the default configuration - which typically provide old data, when so much content on the web is based on daily news even constant quick updates like on message boards. Oviously they want to reduce their real net traffic by that. Maybe pepole who only access mainstream (most accessed) sites like big tv stations and local newspapers don't notice the problem. But this isn't compatible with fair user's expectatitons. IMO I pay for an up-to-date net (actually for an up-to-minute net :-). Fortunately I was "nerd" enough to reconfigure that always, or didn't use that recommendation when I configured a new internet connection. But I'm sure many people suffer from such strange effect due to this and are not so much into all that "secret" internal configuration dialogues. It took me some time to learn too, to learn how to improve this. But I'm a type of user who just must reconfigure everything that can be reconfigured anyway :-)) and Windows defaults are most often bad. Like "hide known file extensions" by default :-)) It's like the major of a city would say, "Let's hide all known traffic signs on our streets..." Regards, M.Scheidl
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