"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/4/2013 1:40 PM, Gary wrote:
>> Let me be the first to mention that fact. She last posted here like 8
>> days ago. I hope she's ok, but she was having computer problems and
>> was talking about putting hers in the shop to get fixed.
>>
>> Just wondering. It's not like her to be absent for so long.
>>
>> :-D
>>
>> G.
>>
> She's been gone so long someone bothered to write a fake post obviously
> not written by her.
>
> Yeah, she said she had problems downloading some newsgroups. I don't know
> what the computer guys can tell her about that. Most of the 20-something
> geeks have never even *heard* of Usenet.

It was a damaged mail folder. Problem was not just with newsgroups.