Thanks for the techie info. Will try out the dbxtract & Google. How long does the server keep headers before expiration? Is there a standard, ROT, or everyone is different?
Daniel Wysocki Twin*.*Computers Fast Reliable Wallet-Friendly ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 1:05 PM Subject: Re: OE 6 news messages disappear > Note - OE will, as soon as it references a newsgroup and has online access > to that group, drop all expired headers. > The only way to see old headers is not to go online > > Then - without the body, what's the point of having the headers. > > But - what's really annoying is if you've downloaded most of the bodies of a > multi-part binary and then the missing ones get posted after the server has > dropped many of the parts you downloaded, then going online to get the late > posted parts immediately loses you the early dropped parts. > > I believe there are facilities for IE6 such as dbxtract that will create > individual files of messages outside of IE, and then you can re-import them > while and restart OE remaining offline - but it may not work for newsgroups. > > Google and you may be lucky > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
