Re: Disappearing messages.

From: Joe Orthodox (JoeOrthodox_at_spamtrap.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:52:34 -0600

I've not followed through all the replies, Steve, but the problem may be
your newsreader and the way it archives your messages. Mine will
occasionally not load a message or not download a couple each day. But
I can go over to Google and see there were a few messages that didn't
come down. Go figure.

Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:14:55 -0900, floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson)
> wrote:
>
>
>>Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In my other message (which seems to keep disappearing from the server) I
>>
>>They "disappear" as soon as you read them, or in any way mark
>>them as having been seen. Which means that you'll see them
>>exactly one time, and unless you do something special they will
>>not be shown to you again.
>>
>>Or, that is what a decent news reader will do for you.
>>
>>Also, regardless of whether you read them, mark them, or
>>whatever, each server only keeps each article for a certain
>>amount of time. That is a configuration option for each
>>newsgroup on a server. Indeed, sometimes it isn't the time that
>>counts, but how much disk space is available.
>>
>>Hence at some point, usually a minimum of 2-3 days, but possibly
>>less and perhaps as much as 3-4 weeks, each article is
>>"expired", and at that point the server removes it entirely.
>>Only massive archives, such a google maintains, keep articles
>>for any length of time.
>
>
>
> Aye, but in this case the messages were disappearing within a minute or less.
>
> I do three things:
>
> 1. Upload replies.
> 2. Download bodies of marked bodies
> 3. Download new headers and bodies of "watched" threads.
>
> When some of my messages started diesappearing (someone on another ng
> complained about it), I "watched" those threads, and between posting a reply
> and downloading it (1-2 minutes, got the message "Sorry. This mesage is no
> longer available".
>
> Now maybe the news server's disks were getting full, but Don Aitken, who reads
> this group and uses another server, also noticed this.
>
>
>

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