At 11:45 PM 1/24/01 +0100, you wrote:
> > Check your newsreader preferences
> > View: Show all: Group by conversation... etc,...
>i read using show all.
>probably the messages are only held on the server for a few hours.
>nice would be not to delete them at all.
>could the old messages be restored ?
I think there is some confusion, where you see a reply with no question
on the mailing list that's because we don't gateway the newsgroup directly
into the mailing list (as when we used to do this occasionally someone would
post spam and it then annoyed all the mailing list people)
So instead we just quote the question in these cases so the answer is seen
but spam doesn't get thru.
> no posts since three months ago when i checked last time.
Either you aren't seeing them because your news client is acting strangely
as others have suggested, or what I suspect is you are reading a local
news server that has the group but not the posts, you can read
the group directly from news.netwinsite.com if you like then you should
see all the items.
ChrisP.
