Thanks for taking the time to Teach me, Harry. Cheers, ken collins
Harry H Conover wrote:
>kkollins at pop3.concentric.net wrote:
> : I've not posted much in this thread, but some of what I've posted has been
> : prematurely-deleted. Please don't do this, as doing so gets things "jumbled",
> : especially in threads like this one that are cross-posted to other Newsgroups.
> : The effect is exactly the same as "quoting" someone out of context... both are
> : completely-unacceptable. K. P. Collins
>> You might want to investigate how usenet operates in a little greater
> depth. Posting expiration is determined by the unique setting of individual
> new server administrators. Often, it's frustrating short, like 24 hours.
> It largely a matter of the disk storage space management on your local
> news server. When newsgroup posts in a certain newsgroup exceed a
> certain defined quota, the earliest posts up to the operating limit
> get munged (deleted). If some post following yours contains a large
> binary inclusion, this increases the probability that your post will
> become prematurely deleted.
>> As a side note, this is why many of us object to anyone posting verbose
> binary files in text newsgroups. One binary post often exceeds the
> space of 50 text posts.
>> Harry C.
>>