How is it possible that my reply to Alan Hicks Slackware Release Fun and
Games has vanished after 6 weeks?

Might be my client being funny or.... no idea really.

Sabotage


(Friday 28 April 2006 22:46:59)

+Alan Hicks+ wrote:

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> Ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls of all ages, it's time for the
> Slackware Release Fun and Games!
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04-JUN-06 please.

Steve'o wrote :

> How is it possible that my reply to Alan Hicks Slackware Release Fun
> and Games has vanished after 6 weeks?

Its most likely because your newsserver has a 6 weeks expire in the
alt.* groups. My ISP's server has a 3 months expire in these groups.
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Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

On 2006-05-18, Steve'o <na@na.com> espoused the following:
> How is it possible that my reply to Alan Hicks Slackware Release Fun and
> Games has vanished after 6 weeks?
>
> Might be my client being funny or.... no idea really.
>
> Sabotage
>
Perhaps your ISP only keeps them for that long. Did you search
google groups?

Scott Cole

--
Only trust pipesmoking penguins.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

Scott Cole wrote:

> On 2006-05-18, Steve'o <na@na.com> espoused the following:
>> How is it possible that my reply to Alan Hicks Slackware Release Fun and
>> Games has vanished after 6 weeks?
>>
>> Might be my client being funny or.... no idea really.
>>
>> Sabotage
>>
> Perhaps your ISP only keeps them for that long. Did you search
> google groups?
>
> Scott Cole
>

I did a search in google for newsgroups reader, did not know about google
groups and it did not return them in the result!

Thanks for the suggestion, yeah its still there, so as you guys have said it
must be my ISP which is a bit crap

Thanks for the explanations!

Steve'o wrote:

> ... as you guys have said it must be my ISP which is a bit crap

Not "crap" (well, they might be, but a 6-week expiry time on netnews
articles is no indication that they are). Netnews articles are expected
to expire after some time. Your ISP simply has a different expiry policy
than other sites. The news server I manage will expire articles in
alt.* after two weeks, if I recall correctly, except for locally posted
articles, which are kept longer.

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