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Subject: 
Life of messages....
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:45:31 GMT
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Todd, how long do messages remain on the LUGnet server?
I have cached headers now approaching the 2000 mark on *.general
and *.robotics. (well, 3546 total actually..)
I've deleted the actual messages, but am loathe
to delete headers as well if I find that I download the lot
again!
Just curious, as MS OE doesn't clear the messages like it does
Usenet. (I manually clear out messages every few days).


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  Re: Life of messages....
 
(...) Some groups will probably start expiring their messages in January. One of the nice things about the NNTP news article format with incremental numberings on the articles is that you can have tens of thousands articles in a single ng on the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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