Date: 22 Oct 2002 15:13:54 GMT From: davehinznopsamcop.net Subject: Re: to administrator of this news group
Someone who looks an awful lot like Delporte Marc <marc.delportenopsamdoo.fr> wrote: > Hi > Unfortunately, these posts (that were 1 week old) have disappeared ! > I do understand that you do need sometimes to clean the oldest posts . > . but if the posts are deleted within less than 1 week ! Hi, Marc. A couple of things - there really isn't any one person who administers usenet, that's not how it works. What you're seeing is a direct effect of your ISP (wanadoo.fr, it seems) having a very short expiration on Usenet articles. > . a lot of participants do not have the time to read, analyze, & participate > to the news group !!! If there are posts which have expired from your ISP's news server, you can always find them at http://groups.google.com - the search engine takes some getting used to, but once you understand it you can find the threads you are looking for. > In that case (if you do not have problems to store the posts) : is it worth > ? Perhaps if you'd ask the support folks at your ISP, they could tell you if this was a one-time "we lost our news cache", or if it's normal that they expire so quickly. One week is extremely short. Hope this helps, Dave Hinz