wrote:

Pardon the confusion - folks who swoop in without reading so much as a
week or two posts before asking a recently-covered, re-covered, and to
make sure, over-covered topic...you know, morons...


While it is *normal* for a seasoned usenet user to expect most folks to
lurk and reveiw past threads, if I read his headers right he is using
an sbc global account as his server. Back when I had the sbc dsl
account and used the sbc server, the amount of messages stored on the
server were relatively small and four day old posts were off the
server. Plus it was hit and miss as far as keeping all the threads.

And his question was a little different than the usual *what
brand/technique/where is the fish* post.