limey wrote:

> "~patches~" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>limey wrote:
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>>>Yesterday, I posted this:
>>>
>>>
>>>I am missing so many posts lately. Mostly, I don't see the original
>>>post
>>>but only the replies. What usually causes this? It's aggravating.
>>
>>Check your filters. I miss a lot of original posts due to a heavy hand
>>when filtering so I often don't see the original post. OTOH, I don't find
>>this annoying.
>
>
> Funny, I don't have many filters in place. In fact, ones I have filtered
> still show up (our dear Dr. Chung). I have checked my other settings and
> seem to be clean. This whole thing is occurring more and more often.

Lucky you. My filters continually grow on this ng and IMO that's a
shame. I figure if one cannot behave in a civil manner, then they can
play in the twit filter. This past week alone! Jeesh!

What mail reader are you using? Perhaps I can offer some suggestions.
BTW, who is your news server. Perhaps that is the problem? Some news
servers keep the messages for such a short period of time. You can kind
of check this if you google for your id and see the messages have been
archived but aren't on your server. Another idea is to check under
options to see if you have a box checked that indicates to only keep
messages a certain number of days old or of a certain size.