Using the same news server and newsgroup in different news readers
should give the same results.

Some things that could throw that off would be
- the timing of the header downloads (the news server is
deleting/expiring old messages and receiving new ones all the time)
- threading/grouping options
- view/sort options
- program bugs in the news reader determining new messages

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Noel" wrote in message
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Many thanks, Michael

A thorough explanation that seems to explain my problem (although I
don't understand why this would cause additional missing threads using
Outlook than Agent when both use the same news server).

Michael Santovec wrote:
For best results, use the "msnews.microsoft.com" news server for
reading
and posting messages regarding help with Microsoft products. This
is
the news server that most of the regulars use. You'll get more
timely
messages, and miss fewer of them.

I thought I could use this suggestion above to test whether the
problem
is indeed the news server not receiving all feeds.

However, the "msnews.microsoft.com" news server chooses to not support
the microsoft.public.excel.misc group!!!!!!

Pretty unbelievable considering that this is a high volume support
site
providing quality support for microsoft excel - and is supported by
MVPs - and is the first forum found when googling "excel forum".