Our old Cable Modem ISP (Armstrong Zoom Internet) used some sort of 
transparent upstream cacheing.   Even though the computers were 
configured as if they had a "direct" internet connection, sometimes old 
web pages would be retrieved.   Slashdot would do this very frequently.

I remember on occasions I would try to retrieve a file with my web 
browser and it would retrieve an old version.   I'd VNC into my home PC 
(on RoadRunner), and attempt to retrieve the very file....  and it's the 
correct (new) version!

I'm sure there are other causes for old pages to be retrieved, but to 
anybody seeing this problem perhaps consider your ISP.    After 
switching to another ISP, I never saw an old Slashdot page again.

-WD


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> I've got my cache set to the default of "When the page is out of date", 
> and I'm seeing that old page problem which people have been mentioning.


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