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From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech)
Subject: Re: Why this news group only have ten days message
Date: 1996/06/03
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sender: ag414@freenet6.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech)
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new member (s937127@mailserv.cuhk.hk) writes:
>      I can only see the message before ten days in this news group. Is 
> that my system have some error or this newsgroup just have ten days 
> message? In many newsgroup, it have at least one month message. In this 
> newsgroup, many people want to get ascii art. So if it obtain more 
> message, the user will have more obtain. And will not require same 
> ascii-art in a short time.

All systems expire articles after a certain length of time. The expiry
time is determied at each individual site, for each individual newsgroup.
Most newsgroups at my site don't have articles more than about 3-4 days
old, simple because we don't have the disk space to store them.


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##### _|\|   |/|_  Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice.
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