MESSAGE NO LONGER AVAILABLE for me to read too often

Often when I click on the most recent unread message, I get a red flag, a
line through the title, and a message saying that that post is no longer
available on the server. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this a
problem with my computer, or are a lot of posts being deleted by someone?

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jackk wrote:
Often when I click on the most recent unread message, I get a red flag, a
line through the title, and a message saying that that post is no longer
available on the server. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this a
problem with my computer, or are a lot of posts being deleted by someone?


The problem is with your server.

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jackk wrote:
Often when I click on the most recent unread message, I get a red
flag, a line through the title, and a message saying that that post
is no longer available on the server. Is anyone else having this
problem? Is this a problem with my computer, or are a lot of posts
being deleted by someone?

Stan just reminded me about the gnomes. First they steal your
underpants, then they start deleting your posts. Freakin' gnomes.
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:10:57 -0800, "jackk"
wrote:

Often when I click on the most recent unread message, I get a red flag, a
line through the title, and a message saying that that post is no longer
available on the server. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this a
problem with my computer, or are a lot of posts being deleted by someone?


Your ISP probably doesn't care enough about news to allot server space
(which costs them) to it. You could email them and ask them what
their retention is and ask if they can increase it for the groups you
read. If they tell you that's not possible, read it more as that they
don't want to and find another Internet provider. Or sign up with one
of the for pay news services.

Cyli
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Often taunted by trout.

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"jackk" wrote in
:

Often when I click on the most recent unread message, I get a red
flag, a line through the title, and a message saying that that post is
no longer available on the server. Is anyone else having this
problem? Is this a problem with my computer, or are a lot of posts
being deleted by someone?


....it's a server-side problem. Google up free news servers, some have
good retention rates. There is a free german news server that is a good
one, the name escapes me just now.

Frank Church

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:32:20 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:

There is a free german news server that is a good
one, the name escapes me just now.

news.individual.net (http://www.individual.net/ to register).
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:32:20 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:


...it's a server-side problem. Google up free news servers, some have
good retention rates. There is a free german news server that is a good
one, the name escapes me just now.


There's one at uni-berlin.de . I forgot how to register, I'm
sure Young Whippersnapper Scott S still remembers.

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:12:06 -0500, GregP wrote:

There's one at uni-berlin.de . I forgot how to register, I'm
sure Young Whippersnapper Scott S still remembers.

That's news.individual.net now, FWIW.
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:32:20 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:


...it's a server-side problem. Google up free news servers, some have
good retention rates. There is a free german news server that is a good
one, the name escapes me just now.


There's one at uni-berlin.de . I forgot how to register, I'm
sure Young Whippersnapper Scott S still remembers.

"jackk" wrote in message ...
Often when I click on the most recent unread message, I get a red flag, a
line through the title, and a message saying that that post is no longer
available on the server. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this a
problem with my computer, or are a lot of posts being deleted by someone?
//snip//

I use Charter also, and am having the same problem. In fact, today it
says that there are "no items in this view . . ." but when I look at
Google there's a long list of items posted since I last viewed.

Furthermore, even though I've followed Charter's instructions to the
letter after their change of news servers two weeks ago, I still can't
post either replies or new messages.

Probably time to look for a new ISP. Will probably sign up with SBC.

Bob