"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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James Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:50:07 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

I keep missing the OP in a thread and some complete threads -
although I can see them online.

I'm using OE6 - would that be it? Would I be better off using
Firefox to read NG's?

Could be a combination of a short keep-time on your news server and a
not-regular-enough connect frequency by you. If your news server only
keeps messages for e.g. 3 days after arrival you need to connect at
least this frequently to not miss posts (or change news server).

I'm confused now. I get on to the group every day.

OTOH, does OE perhaps have an automatic deletion schedule? E.g
perhaps it deletes read posts after 5 days. If so that may be
removing the earlier posts in a thread.

Nope, I can see threads tha go back ages.


What you want to do is open the Tools drop down menu, select Message Rules
News, New rule, "Where the message was sent more than days ago" and then set
it to delete messages after X number of days from being sent. You make it
delete already received messages retrospectively.

This took me bloody ages to figure out :-)

H