Messages on Server for 90 days only

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djprius

My newsgroup reader (Mozilla Thunderbird) gives me a message on all
Microsoft Newsgroups for any message that is more 90 days old that the
message has "expired".

Is it a Microsoft policy to remove messages from the public server
after that point? If so, why remove them so quickly; the shelf life of
the messages should be at least several years.

I can search for older newsgroup items on Google Groups, but the
listing on that website is not as good, in my view, as the newsgroup itself.

David
 
I've never tried the website access, only Google Groups, but from all
the complaints posted here about the website, I wonder why anyone
does.
 
David is talking about the msnews server (accessed via NNTP), not the Web
site.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

I've never tried the website access, only Google Groups, but from all
the complaints posted here about the website, I wonder why anyone
does.
 
The servers used for msnews are old and unstable and prone to problems even
with just 90 days' worth of messages. And doomed, as MS has signaled a clear
intention to move all "discussion groups" to (Web-based) "forums" and ditch
the NNTP NGs.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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