Subject: Re: Getting Back

From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 Dec 1996 05:54:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Fitch R.
Williams) writes:

>[email-masked] wrote:
>
>>What I meant to say was: How do I get the neswgroup window to display
all
>>messages? The help  window mentions a choice called "List All subjects"
>>but I don't see that option anywhere. I want to look up some old
postings,
>>such as the address and phone # for Atlas/Clausing, but they are no
longer
>>displayed. I am only seeing new postings. Please help if you can,
thanks,
>>Gary
>
>It would help to know what software you are using.
>
>

  I wrote a response to this a couple of days ago and then lost all my
mail and newsgroup files before I could send it. So here goes again. In
response to Fitch look at his signature and you can see that he is on AOL.
Since they don't allow you to use any other programs but there own I'm
assuming thats what he's got. 

  Now for the the original problem. I'm assuming that you're trying to do
this offline in the PFC. You must go online to get to the read listings.
Go to keyword newsgroups and click on read my newgroups. Then you will see
the the buttons you're talking about. Also when you get to the listing of
posts you will see a button for preferences. Clicking that will show you a
place to tell how long to keep listings. The standard is 2 weeks but you
can change this. I don' know if changing it after the fact will help any
but you can try. If the post has scrolled of the list then I would suggest
you try the dejanews archive but someone else can help you better than I
can at this since I've never used it.

   Wayne Cook

Quality is like buying oats,
        if you want nice, clean, fresh oats you must pay a fair price.

However, 
        if you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through
the horse...
                          
That comes a little cheaper...

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 6 Dec 1996 19:55:16 GMT

What I meant to say was: How do I get the neswgroup window to display all
messages? The help  window mentions a choice called "List All subjects"
but I don't see that option anywhere. I want to look up some old postings,
such as the address and phone # for Atlas/Clausing, but they are no longer
displayed. I am only seeing new postings. Please help if you can, thanks,
Gary

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From: Abrasha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 01:24:57 -0800

> displayed. I am only seeing new postings. Please help if you can, thanks,

Check out http://www.dejanews.com/ on the Web, and/or get rid of AOL and get your sell a 
regular local ISP.

Besides, even in Netscape choosing Options/Show All Messages would only get you messages 
as fer back as a couple of weeks or sometimes only a few days.

In dejanews you can search much farther back.

Good Luck!

Abrasha
http://www.abrasha.com

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From: [email-masked] (Fitch R. Williams)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 14:17:12 GMT

Fitch