Re: Indo-European Origins and Geography

Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Atkinson wrote:
>> > If it matters to you, the group is threaded, but after I've already read
>> > a message, the next time I visit the newsgroup, that message doesn't
>> > appear on my screen again.

>> And even for those of us whose newsreaders do retain messages we've read,
>> it's bloody inconvenient to be continually switching back and forwards
>> between messages in order to find what someone's talking about. So
>> inconvenient that I, for one, refuse to do it.

> I can of course view Already Read messages, but only by choosing "Show
> All Messages" and waiting a very long time indeed for all 8,319 headers
> to download. (Or by clicking on the numbers in the "References" line.)

Your news server obviously has a very long retention time... some of
us are not so fortunate.

Axel

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