On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:44:44 -0500, singhals <singhals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.misc:
> I hate to "pile on", but Robert has said what some of us
And I'll piggy-back on your post...
>
> Arnold O.Kn. wrote:
>
> > The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that
not
> > everyone did
> > read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace
daily.
> > However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english)
Most ISPs keep newsgroup messages active for a few weeks -- it
depends upon how much activity the group gets and the storage space
available to the ISP. For text-only groups, I can reset my newsreader
and fetch messages all the way back to January 2006 from Earthlink
(Mindspring [Netcom]). Typically, binary groups get faster expirations
(at one time, Netcom was expiring binary message groups at ~24 hours)
due to the size of binary messages (UUencode or Base64 image files).
People don't have to check a group daily -- if the ISP has a 30 day
expiration policy, one could check the group only on the day of a full
moon (~every 29 days) and still get ALL messages posted in that period.
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/
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