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    A request for everyone, regarding a pet peeve —Dave Schuler
   If someone posts a link to a new MOC, would it be possible for replies to include the link, too? Maybe this is just me, but it vexes me when I see a "hey that's great" post, but the praise-post doesn't indicate the item being praised. For that (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: A request for everyone, regarding a pet peeve —Ram Sreerangam
   Does the Lugnet news server have a bot that deletes posts every now and then? I see a lot of reply posts that no longer have the original posts. Besides entire threads disappearing! Why is that so? - Ram - "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: A request for everyone, regarding a pet peeve —Rob Hendrix
     Are you guys referring to the web interface or NNTP? I have not personally seen this problem via the website, but I have noticed that certain settings on my nntp will keep or NOT keep a certain number of messages in a newsgroup. For instance, my (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: A request for everyone, regarding a pet peeve —Dave Schuler
     (...) Just for reference, the problem that Ram is describing is wholly separate from what I'm talking about. His question seems to involve the expiration of parts of a thread, while I'm referring to the omission of source-links in follow-up posts. (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: A request for everyone, regarding a pet peeve —David Laswell
   (...) I've noticed on occassion that a new reply is disconnected from the previous thread (the original thread is still there, but the new post shows up as the start of a second thread), and I've long wondered if it had something to do with the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
 

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