Appols to those I began corresponding with in threads; 'OT Polarised light'; 'advice on odd tap problem'; 'Silicon bead tools'. Virgin posted my first few comments and then failed on the follow up replies...
It appears from checking virgin media's virginmedia.support.usenet, that there may be a problem with their farmed-out 'Highwinds' server, which is not reliably posting messages to uk.d-i-y.
I've changed to their Liverpool based text.news... server, which I am told is more reliable, and hope that will cure the problem for future threads, but that leaves me with a backlog of sent messages that didn't get through, which I now don't know how to resend so that they end up in the right places in the various threads.
Have others here been having problems like this?
(Assuming I can now engage in a proper too and fro... fingers crossed!)
Cheers, S