Maybe someone can help me with this. I recently bought Microsoft's latest newsgroups autoposting software, MS NGBS for Computer Widows (V9.9) and I'm getting some really unpredictable results in a couple of my regular newsgroups. I went through all of the query screens in the setup wizard, and filled in all the information (favorite groups, normal posting volume, killfile worm settings, most common posting time of day, favorite subjects, thread seeker, pseudo reject, etc.) and started the program up, running in background mode. That was about a week or a week and a half ago. I just got a few minutes free from family and business responsibilities to check the results. Well, holy target fixation, Batman, there has GOT to be some massive bug in this program! As expected, postings (both new subjects and responses) were propogated, spell-checked (with the normal 3% overlook sampling that I specified in the setup parameters working perfectly) and posted. No problem there. But a quick check of the "subject" and "respond to" output stats database indicates that some kind of replication or sociopathic algorithm must be resident in the response subroutines. I mean, fer Chrissakes, this thing posted literally HUNDREDS of messages in a single thread, with almost all of them directed as responses to users who were, themselves, obviously CGI constructs. Damn. If the software can't differentiate between CyberTrolls, G&RC's, and other NGBS s/w output, what is the point of utilizing it? Frankly, I'm disgusted. Unless someone else has found a fix for this, I'm dumping the utility entirely, and going back to posting my own messages, no matter how much time it takes! Tim
