Don,
The server (I guess) took ALL posts from before March 1 and vanished
them... read or unread. The other groups didn't act that way.

LLB

"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
...
On 2008-03-06, LLBrown wrote:
Hi,
Because my original note vanished a day after I posted it (at least on
my
computer) I am reposting this link of shameless self promotion of me
building a horn in my shop.

Normally, when you read an article, your newsreader marks it as
"already read" and will not present it to you again. This does not mean
that it is not out there for others to encounter for the first time.
Reposting it clutters up the newsgroup -- and this one is bad enough as
it is with 300+ articles per day, and a lot off topic. My killfile is
zapping between 50% and 66% of the articles each day, which is the only
thing which makes it practical for me to read.

As for how long an article will stick around -- that depends on
the news server. The one you use may keep articles for a month, some
other news serves may keep them around for six months, and Google keeps
them for ever (if not marked "X-Archive-No: " in the headers) but will
shuttle those which are past a certain age to where you need to jump
through hoops to access them to keep you from being flooded with way too
many. And some news servers (on systems tight on memory) may expire
articles within a day. But they are still out there in all of the other
news servers around the world. It is not like a web site where
everything is kept on a single machine.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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