"Leon Fisk" wrote in message
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There are several good archiving readers around. Once you
get used to using one you will wonder how you ever got along
without.

Ok, but how will that help recover messages that never make it past your
news server? That appears to be what happened, although I have no idea how
it works.

The headers were there but the message bodies were not. My news reader
never
got a chance to download them at all.

I misunderstood what you meant Ed. I thought you were
complaining about old messages that were removed early due
to the sporge attack. I used to see that many years ago
before I switched to Agent. The reader I was using just kept
the headers and always had to retrieve the message bodies
when you went online.

I haven't seen any headers with missing bodies for quite
sometime. I've never been lucky enough (cough) to use
Outlook either, but I always understood that it doesn't
archive messages in newsgroups. I'm probably wrong about
that too...

It's all black magic and hocus-pocus. That's my story and I'm sticking to
it. Fortunately there are experts around to call on when I really need
something computerish, when I need a proctology exam, and when I need to
have a relative embalmed.

--
Ed Huntress