"Mark Atherton" wrote in message
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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?
Mark Atherton



Hi Mark,

If you're using Outlook Express...

click on Tools
click on options
click on Maintenance
you should see...

delete news messages [ x ] days after being down loaded.

set this figure higher