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On Sep 2, 10:19 pm, rober...@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson)
wrote:
> In article <jGBCi.6041$F77.2...@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>,
>
> Tristram Scott <tristram.sc...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >Walter Roberson <rober...@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
> >> Hmmm -- I wonder if I'm posting enough to hit a spam filter setting? ;-)
> >Now what kind of fool spam filter would block your posts, Walter?
>
> I was partly in jest, but I see that it let through exactly 15
> of my Thursday postings, and that everything of mine after that
> has gone AWOL -- the 7 other Thursday posts, the 14 Friday posts,
> the 10 saturday posts, the 17 so far today... about 48 posts
> of mine not allowed through.
>
> On the other hand when I look at some of the threads via Matlabcentral,
> they are terribly fragmented, with the usenet portions often appearing
> as individual threads instead of being tied together, and
> some of the usenet postings missing entirely. It isn't -just- me;
> I'm just the person who happens to be most affected.
> --

Just a few minutes ago I switched from the Matlab Central web
interface to Google Groups. Now I see messages I never knew existed
and the threads are organized correctly. Not only that, I can easily
do bottom posting or interleaved posting.