Subj : Re: Missing messages To : Bill Spindler From : Bill Spindler Date : Sun Mar 04 2001 12:52 pm From: "Bill Spindler" "Bill Spindler" wrote in message news:3aa317a2@w3.nls.net... > > "Geo." wrote in message news:3aa28c37$1@w3.nls.net... > > "Bill Spindler" wrote in message > > news:3AA27D7D.6FB4EF15@attglobal.net... > > > > > > I tried OE and it doesn't find anything before 11/24. > > > > > > Did you do something that I didn't see mentioned here? > > > > Not that I know of, but I believe I have dnews set for a 6 month scroll > > rate. > > > > I'll try clearing the group in my outlook and then see what I see. > > > > Ok, I just went into outlook express properties and reset this news group > on > > my home system. I can see posts dating back to 6/30/2000 > > > > Geo. (I guess it's not set to purge old stuff until it reaches a certain > > size.) > > > I just tried the same thing in OE. The newsgroup (left pane) initially > showed 1383 messages when I started to download again, but when all were > downloaded that number changed to 1017. Again, nothing before 11/24. > > NN 4.76 shows and accesses messages back to 6/30, but with a 3 month gap > between 8/28 and 11/24. Hmm, 8/28 is about 6 months ago... > Okay, I give up. I just tried the "headers" button on the toolbar (as opposed to Tools/get next xxx headers in the menu, and now OE sees stuff back to 6/30. But with the same 3-month gap... -- Bill --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .