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Re: Life of messages....
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:51:30 GMT
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Thanks Todd. It does get the new messages with fantastic
speed, and I can display only downloaded, unread, replies
to my posts, etc., I am given many display options.
Yes, I have been thinking of changing newsreaders, but
too used to this one! ('Tis free, after all!)
I was just curious, due to some space limitations, now
eliminated by virtue of a nice, new, big hard drive!
It certainly is beneficial that I can go back and re-download
old threads with ease!
Todd Lehman wrote in message <36890f28.397378@lugnet.com>...
> "Richard Dee" <richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net> writes:
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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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> 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 server and the client still zips through obtaining • any
> new ones just as quickly as if there were only ten or a hundred articles.
> If you explicitly delete messages you've read and your newsreader reloads
> them every time you ask it to refresh the group list, you might consider
> obtaining a different/new newsreader -- a newsreader shouldn't always be
> displaying every single message in a newsgroup -- only the ones you haven't
> yet read. That's the theory anyway.
>
> --Todd
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