Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:48:40 08/31/99
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On August 31, 1999 at 16:19:15, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On August 31, 1999 at 10:23:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 31, 1999 at 09:11:33, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >> >>>On August 30, 1999 at 23:30:12, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>> >>>>On August 30, 1999 at 22:55:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>I have noticed for at least several days, something odd. I will see the normal >>>>>thread display (using netscape 4.6 under linux) and when I get to the last in a >>>>>series (the one indented the most) and read it, another post magically appears >>>>>after that one, that was _not_ there when I started reading... as though in >>>>>some cases it fails to show all posts in the thread at the beginning. And no, >>>>>I am not talking about threads with 20+ posts indented across the screen. Some- >>>>>times there are only 3, and when I get to the 3rd one, down at the bottom of >>>>>the screen for that message I see yet another one. >>>>> >>>>>Is something new going on threading-wise? Or is this just yet another stupid >>>>>netscape glitch? >>>> >>>>I think sometimes this can be caused when people post something after you see >>>>the index screen but before you get to the end of the thread. >>> >>>I've seen that sometimes too and if thing it's the right explanation of the >>>phenomenon >> >>This isn't the situation. I see (say) 4 messages in one thread. I click on >>the last one and _instantly_ at the bottom of the screen I see _another_message >>tacked on to the end. This happens regularly. And there are just milliseconds >>between when I see 4 messages and the 5th one shows up at the end. I doubt >>that someone is posting during that interval. Once or twice, yes. But I >>am seeing this dozens of times.. > >Are you getting pages through a proxy that other people might also be reading >CCC from? > >Dave No... And the thing is, that this is a reasonably recent happening. Unfortunately, I visited redhat's web site a while back and upgraded everything to the most recent for their 6.0 errata stuff. Which included a new netscape among other things. It still crashes if I try to reply to a long post here and insert a few lines here and there... so maybe this is _another_ netscape bug I get for free... :)
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