In article , S Viemeister
writes
Mark Atherton wrote:

I am fairly new to newsgroups but find this one particularly interesting.
Only thing is, if I don't access it for a couple of days lots of stuff has
disappeared, any way of retrieving posts from ,say, the past week?

Go to http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en and search on uk.d-i-y

Advanced search suits me better:

http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en
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