DJ Delorie wrote:
"Mike Marlow" writes:
Oh - no posts got "dropped off" because of this thread. That's not
how usenet works.

Actually, that *is* how usenet works. NNTP servers have limited
storage space, and as new messages come in, old ones are deleted. On
particularly busy groups, small servers end up keeping messages for
less than a day, or even just a few hours.

If someone's losing rec.* posts in hours nowadays, they need a new news
service. G