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Simon Barrett >> Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:26:41 GMT
Where did the start of this thread go? BJ refers to Eric Peachy's posting but I can longer see it.
Outlook Express is to blame. The default setting is to remove newsgroup headers from your local cache after x days (usually 5). This is exactly what you want on the real internet newsgroups - because the articles themselves are deleted after x days - and there are so many that you would fill your hard drive with subject headers after a few months (depending on how many large newsgroups you follow). For the Jade newsgroups the articles remain on the server forever and there will never be millions of them - so it is not appropriate to delete your local copy.
To see the articles again right-click the newsgroup and select Properties / Local File / Reset. The next time you read the newsgroup all articles will re-appear. To stop this happening again select Tools / Options / Maintenance. Now uncheck the option Delete news messages x days after being downloaded. You should probably check the option Delete read message bodies in newsgroups too - because they will be reloaded the next time you highlight the article. It's a shame that OE doesn't have separate options for these settings for each news server - because the options I've just suggested would be wrong for the general internet newsgroups.
Cheers, Simon.