"The Reid" wrote in message
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Following up to mbb

Is it not possible, perhaps with a particular newsreader, to have a root
message, and it's replies, posted/delivered only once? I can appreciate
that
various servers disseminate posts in a disimilar speed, but the
duplication
of traffic is horrendous - thinks "search for alternative newsreader".

I don't understand this point. Is the "duplication of traffic" the
unsnipped original message in various replies? If so, I don't think
anything can be done, or do I miss the point?
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
UK walking "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" (see web for email)
Spain,cuisines and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"

Indeed it is - looking at this set of messages, each is a copy, (perhaps
edited), of what has gone before, with an additional comment, some top
posted, some bottom, some humourous, some not so! I'm just hoping that this
duplication can be avoided somehow, either by using a clever piece of
newsgroup client software, or convention, or even both. What I would hope
for is one thread, containing the original posting, with each comment, and
the comments to the comments, connnected as part of the one conversation,
with no piece of data downloaded from the server more than once.

I imagine it also depends on whether you download headers, or complete
messages. It's likely that you can capture (almost) all a thread by simply
waiting, and picking up one of the last postings in the thread, (but that is
also not guaranteed to miss comments, I know). I guess if I never went
"broadband", I'd never have noticed,,,,,,,, :¬)

regards, mbb