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why have my messages gone away?
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| i am new to newsgroups so, if anyone can please tell me why my topic
from 2 days ago says
Error!
newsgroup server responded:No such article number in this group
Perhaps the article has expired
i'd apreciate..
i haven't even read all the answers..
cheers
np
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| Chris Barts 2004-11-27, 2:47 am |
| nuno wrote:
> i am new to newsgroups so, if anyone can please tell me why my topic
> from 2 days ago says
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> Error!
> newsgroup server responded:No such article number in this group
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> Perhaps the article has expired
Because your ISP's news servers don't retain articles that long. Your
client is requesting an article and the server is telling your client
that it's been tossed in the bit bucket.
Try going to groups.google.com and typing author:nunomp@gmail.com into
the search bar. It should give you every article you've ever posted to
Usenet (that have filtered over to Google's servers, anyway).
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| David Schwartz 2004-11-27, 5:51 pm |
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"nuno" <nunomp@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:41a7fdc0$0$25758$a729d347@news.telepac.pt...
>i am new to newsgroups so, if anyone can please tell me why my topic from 2
>days ago says
>
> Error!
> newsgroup server responded:No such article number in this group
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> Perhaps the article has expired
>
> i'd apreciate..
> i haven't even read all the answers..
Talk to whoever runs your news server. The article is not available on
your news server, that doesn't mean the article has gone away. USENET
consists of thousands of news servers, and each one has its own policy for
how long it keeps articles.
DS
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| Rich Gibbs 2004-11-27, 5:51 pm |
| nuno said the following, on 11/26/04 23:08:
> i am new to newsgroups so, if anyone can please tell me why my topic
> from 2 days ago says
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> Error!
> newsgroup server responded:No such article number in this group
>
> Perhaps the article has expired
>
As you probably know, USENET is a distributed system, and the
administrator of each news server decides how long articles will be
retained. Most don't retain them for more than a handful of days,
because the total data volume is pretty high. So your ISP (or whoever
provides your news server) has probably dropped the article.
In this situation, Google is your friend (<http://groups.google.com> ).
You should be able to find the complete thread there (or at least all
the messages that made it so far).
I notice also from your message headers that you appear to be using
Mozilla Thunderbird. It can be configured (possibly needing the
"offline" extension) to download messages to your local machine for
working offline; obviously this also allows you to save whatever you
want, for as long as you want.
--
Rich Gibbs
rgibbs@alumni.princeton.edu
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| Rich Gibbs wrote:
> nuno said the following, on 11/26/04 23:08:
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> As you probably know, USENET is a distributed system, and the
> administrator of each news server decides how long articles will be
> retained. Most don't retain them for more than a handful of days,
> because the total data volume is pretty high. So your ISP (or whoever
> provides your news server) has probably dropped the article.
>
> In this situation, Google is your friend (<http://groups.google.com> ).
> You should be able to find the complete thread there (or at least all
> the messages that made it so far).
>
> I notice also from your message headers that you appear to be using
> Mozilla Thunderbird. It can be configured (possibly needing the
> "offline" extension) to download messages to your local machine for
> working offline; obviously this also allows you to save whatever you
> want, for as long as you want.
>
thanks to all. i will now google for the answers to my topics.
cheers
np
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