My initial post is clearly visible to me so now I will include an URL in
my reply to it to see if that works.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/events/2007/rugby-world-cup/

A number of things can go wrong with news posts that are out of your
control.

When you post a news message, it is initially only available on the news
server that you used.  Depending on how busy the news server is, it
might take a few seconds, a few minutes, or a few hours before the
message is available for reading.  And only people who use the same news
server can read your post, at that point.

Periodically, the news server contacts one or more other news servers.
It passes on any new posts that it has in public news groups and in turn
receives any new posts that the other servers have.  If the received
posts are for a news group that the server carries, the server keeps a
copy.  In this fashion, a news post is propagated to other news servers
around the world.  This is not entirely reliable.  It can take days for
a message to make it to another news server.  And many messages
disappear into the Internet bit bucket.  If you post 5 messages on news
server "A", posts 1, 2, 4 and 5 might make it to news server "B" and 1,
3 and 4 might make it to news server "C".

And even if you are looking at the "same" news server as the original
post, it might not really be the "same" news server.  Larger ISPs and
newsgroup services have banks of news servers.  Each time you connect to
the newsgroups you may get a different server from the bank.  They are
supposed to be kept in synch so that they have the same news posts, but
it's not unusual for them to get out-of-synch.  And so, some people
using the "same" news server may see and reply to posts that others
don't see.