Subject: Why do these articles dissapear every two days?????????????????

From: [email-masked] (solar trough guy)
Date: 4 Jul 1996 00:05:17 GMT

Why do these articles dissapear every two days?????????????????

Am I supposed to set something so that I can have articles
two weeks long. Like today, 7/02/93, there are only five articles
to read!  What ever happened to threads. Am I missing something?
I had CDSNET and had plenty of threads. Now I have chatlink,
and nada.. They wont answer this question. Any ideas?

Any response to this will be gone in two days - sucks..

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From: [email-masked] (Ron Tipton)
Date: 4 Jul 1996 17:35:29 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (solar trough guy) writes:
|> Why do these articles dissapear every two days?????????????????
|> 
|> Am I supposed to set something so that I can have articles
|> two weeks long. Like today, 7/02/93, there are only five articles
|> to read!  What ever happened to threads. Am I missing something?
|> I had CDSNET and had plenty of threads. Now I have chatlink,
|> and nada.. They wont answer this question. Any ideas?
|> 
|> Any response to this will be gone in two days - sucks..

whoever is in charge of usenet news at your isp decides how long to keep
posted articles.  here at the university of tennessee we keep articles
>from  one to twenty eight days depending on the group to which they are
posted.  we keep articles posted to the rec groups for six days.  i 
would like to keep everything for at least eight days but we have 3.2 
gb of disk space in the news spool now... and would have to increase that 
to keep things longer and (of course) we have no $$$.

ron

Ron Tipton
Newsmaster
University of Tennessee

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Davis)
Date: 5 Jul 1996 05:13:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (solar trough guy) writes:
-> Why do these articles dissapear every two days?????????????????
-> 
-> Am I supposed to set something so that I can have articles
-> two weeks long. Like today, 7/02/93, there are only five articles
-> to read!  What ever happened to threads. Am I missing something?
-> I had CDSNET and had plenty of threads. Now I have chatlink,
-> and nada.. They wont answer this question. Any ideas?
-> 
-> Any response to this will be gone in two days - sucks..

ask cdsnet to increase the expiration higher than two days.
if they wont, try another isp.

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From: [email-masked] (Steve J. Noll)
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 14:25:13 GMT

I'm using the popular Free Agent news reader.  It has a "Keep Article"
button that lets me "lock-in" any article(s), even after they are no
longer available from the ISP.  If your news reader has that feature,
that may be an answer, at least for now.

Steve J. Noll | Ventura CA | WA6EJO | [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (James Kirkpatrick)
Date: 5 Jul 96 15:50:15 MDT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (solar trough guy) writes:
|>Why do these articles dissapear every two days?????????????????
|>
|>Am I supposed to set something so that I can have articles
|>two weeks long. Like today, 7/02/93, there are only five articles
|>to read!  What ever happened to threads. Am I missing something?
|>I had CDSNET and had plenty of threads. Now I have chatlink,
|>and nada.. They wont answer this question. Any ideas?
|>
|>Any response to this will be gone in two days - sucks..

This is entirely an issue between you and your service provider.
UseNet only provides for the distribution of news; how long each
article is kept by a site is up to the manager of that site.  Note
that here at UW, we have pretty much a "full" feed of about 18,000
newsgroups.  Keeping articles for 3-4 days (except alt.binaries.*
which we keep 1-2 days) we fill three 4-gigabyte disk drives.

My suggestion would be to find a better service provider.  If they
have not responded to your query, they don't deserve your business.

Jim