Re: why have my messages gone away?
From: nuno (nunomp_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:39:10 +0000
Rich Gibbs wrote:
> nuno said the following, on 11/26/04 23:08:
>
>> i am new to newsgroups so, if anyone can please tell me why my topic
>> from 2 days ago says
>>
>> Error!
>> newsgroup server responded:No such article number in this group
>>
>> Perhaps the article has expired
>>
>
> As you probably know, USENET is a distributed system, and the
> administrator of each news server decides how long articles will be
> retained. Most don't retain them for more than a handful of days,
> because the total data volume is pretty high. So your ISP (or whoever
> provides your news server) has probably dropped the article.
>
> In this situation, Google is your friend (<http://groups.google.com>).
> You should be able to find the complete thread there (or at least all
> the messages that made it so far).
>
> I notice also from your message headers that you appear to be using
> Mozilla Thunderbird. It can be configured (possibly needing the
> "offline" extension) to download messages to your local machine for
> working offline; obviously this also allows you to save whatever you
> want, for as long as you want.
>
thanks to all. i will now google for the answers to my topics.
cheers
np
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