"Anne Burgess" wrote in message
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Tried to access this newsgroup via Google Groups this evening, and it
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Total wipe out, but then i found these postings on the side of the
screen

Oh? I had a look earlier on and it said there were 114,000 messages.


what is interesting is how little effect it actually has. Whilst the
automatics may have trouble sorting it the human eye can just skim down
through the downloaded headers and for some reason the 'real' ones tended to
cluster together.

And back to the real world, here south of Barrow in Furness there were a few
flakes at 9pm when I collected my daughter but nothing special. But the
weather is dry and clear and actually rather pleasant so I can cope

Jim Webster