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.
