Re: Google News - The Good, Bad, and Ugly


Paul E. Schoen wrote:
I sometimes use www.groups.google.com to access newsgroups, particularly
when I do not have access to a news server, such as news.coretel.net, which
I use with my ISP account at this location.

Recently, I found that some of my posts were not showing up. I tried
Google, and they were there, along with possibly some others that were not
showing up with Coretel. Normally my posts appear within a few minutes, if
not instantly. However, two recent posts did not show up after several
hours.

At my work location, where I must use Google, I found a problem where
Internet Explorer would consistently crash if I was following a thread with
the left pane as a tree, and I tried to widen the pane. The cursor started
blinking and the CPU usage, as reported by Program Mangler, was 100%. I was
able to close the application, and dutifully reported it to Microsoft. I
thought perhaps it was a peculiarity of the system at work, but I just
duplicated it here.

I was wondering if any other GoogleGroups users have had similar problems?
I think it may be a bug in the Java script or whatever applet is used to
move the pane divider and refresh the screen, but it may also be a bug in
IE or WinXP. It is a minor annoyance, but worth investigating.

Also, has anyone else experienced problems with Coretel news?

I get a lost post maybe one out of 25 times going in thru Google. I
also get some minor editing glitches. None of this happened when I had
a real newsreader last year.

Luhan

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