> Personally, I've never noticed this problem, as I've set the properties of > g.c.o. questions under news.gmaine,org to "Delete messages more than [7] > days old", which works. Oddly, I don't find any option "Remove expired > article."
You've never noticed this problem becuse we are taking about 2 different things. A few word of explanation. There are newsserver that remove messages on the server side, for example MS msnews.microsoft.com keeps 60 days. After 60 days the MS newsserverremoves the expired message and notifies the newsreader to remove the same message from the local base. IBM newsserver news.software.ibm.com keeps 500 days. An some newservers are set to keep all messages the while life. When you set "Delete messages more than [7] days old" in Thunderbird, it removes messages 7 days old only from the local base. But there is no real synchronization between the newsserver and the newsreader. -- Grzegorz Wiktorowski --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
