Keith G wrote:

My bloody newsreader (OE) briefly displays a high number of 'new posts' and
instantly drops back to a lower number on a routine basis. Just now it said
'16' before dropping down to '9' in a flash. Does anyone else get this?
(I've got no-one 'binned' atm!)

Is this just the crappy software or does anybody think I'm losing posts?

(Apologies if anyone feels themselves 'ignored' as a result!)



I use Mozilla's news reader, and I had a problem like that a while back
on another newsgroup. The number new posts would show an increase, and
when I downloaded the headers, the number of new posts was less by a
fixed offset.

This went away after a month or so.