I've noticed something that's puzzling me that just seems to occur on the
Microsoft news server (as opposed to my regular RCN Usenet server where this
doesn't occur.

The numbers in brackets that accompany the name of the newsgroup on the OE
bar that show the number of unread messages on the group;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
on the RCN server, when opening the group to view the headers, the numbers
always increase but on the Microsoft server, these numbers both increase AND
decrease when the group is clicked to view and the headers change.
Is there something that's different between the two servers or are my news
settings perhaps different somehow by default?
I'm just wondering how the unread message numbers on the Microsoft server
can both increase and decrease where the RCN always increases.
Puzzling?????? I know the answer is going to come back on this and be
something completely obvious that I missed checking out before I posted the
question :-))))
Thanks
Dudley