"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2008-07-23, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jon Elson wrote:

I've been using gigaNews, they are definitely more expensive,
but seem to be quite reliable. One actual problem is they keep
TOO MUCH!

[ ... ]

434106 right now. I use the ld Netscape 4.78, with it set to only
display unread messages, and only keep unread headers. The .snm
(headers) file for this newsgroup is only 10,584,064 bytes, with 303
unread messages. There are some unread headers in the file, retained to
keep a thread intact. Once the thread is finished, it is purged.

Hmm ... how can you be *sure* that a thread is finished? With
people finding old threads in Google and posting to them as though they
were current, things pop back to life from time to time -- often threads
which you would rather would stay dead. :-)


Finshed, as in no unread messages.


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