Re: Handling boot viruses

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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:58:41 GMT

Just some comments on my news server experience; Earthlink keeps messages
from newsgroups that
it carries for three months regardless of volume (though Earthlink does
limit downloads an account can make from its news servers to one Gbyte per
month. I don't think I've seen more than one or two posts in the last
several years for which the previous post is missing. Anyway it is probably
not a Good Thing for a thread to go past two or three weeks in a newsgroup
like this. It isn't as if there is much added value after that time.

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"Ant" <not@home.today> wrote in message
news:c9gonl$1m8$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
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> On my server expiration time varies depending on the group. Some are
> as long as 3 months, but others as short as 2 weeks. I don't know why
> it's this way, since the short-time groups I've seen are low traffic
> text-only, therefore it's not a storage space issue. If someone on
> another server with a longer retention time replies to an older post
> and doesn't quote properly, then it's a problem for the short-timers.
>
> > As for messages that have not arrived, well, that information will
> > not be in the quotes either.
>
> The message may have arrived on your server, but not on mine. It may
> never show up on mine. I see this frequently when a post contains an
> attibution which is obviously from an anon remailer (Anonymous, Frog,
> An Metet). My server often doesn't receive these.
>
> > As for nips and tucks, I'd rather have the whole cloth, rather than
> > someone else's editing.
>
> Which you normally have in your threaded newsreader. On that rare
> occasion when you want more context you can go back and re-read the
> earlier post.
>
> I haven't snipped any of your post here, because I think all of it
> was required to maintain context, and I had something to say about
> each part. The amount of quoted text is less than the amount of
> original text, and I can't believe it was tiresome to see your words
> quoted inline. They are there as aide memoirs - you can just skim
> over them.
>
>

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