Re: Why this news group only have ten days message
From Colin R. Leech <ag4...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
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· 3 Jun 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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new member (s93...@mailserv.cuhk.hk) writes: > I can only see the message before ten days in this news group. Is > that my system have some error or this newsgroup just have ten days > message? In many newsgroup, it have at least one month message. In this > newsgroup, many people want to get ascii art. So if it obtain more > message, the user will have more obtain. And will not require same > ascii-art in a short time. All systems expire articles after a certain length of time. The expiry time is determied at each individual site, for each individual newsgroup. Most newsgroups at my site don't have articles more than about 3-4 days old, simple because we don't have the disk space to store them. -- ##### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crl...@freenet.carleton.ca ##### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. ##### > < Opinions are my own. Consider them shareware if you want. ##### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8a3444a1e5affc1e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ag4...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Subject: Re: Why this news group only have ten days message Date: 1996/06/03 Message-ID: <4ou0ig$jk...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158188593 sender: ag4...@freenet6.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech) references: <4olovf$rc...@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.edu.hk> organization: The National Capital FreeNet reply-to: ag4...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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