"Neil" wrote in message
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"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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"Neil" wrote in message
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"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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Bruce Hagen wrote:

News servers only keep posts for a period of time. Each server is
different.
MSNews keeps them for 90 days. Some servers keep them longer, some
only for
a few days.

If you want to keep posts indefinitely, copy them to an OE local
folder.

Also, make sure that in View | Current View, you have Show All
Messages and
Group messages By Conversation checked and nothing else.

The reason regarding Bruce's reply is that OE remains in sync with the
NNTP server. If the NNTP server expires and drops a post then so, too,
will OE. You need to move items out of the newsgroups folder in OE if
you don't want them to get synchronized (i.e., deleted in OE after the
NNTP server deleted them).

Again, I have my synchronization settings set to "No synchronization."
And I remember my headers used to stay indefinitely. Once a header was
downloaded, it would just stay in the folder. If I hadn't gotten the
body of a message, and it scrolled off the server, then, yeah, it was
too late (and when I tried to get that expired text, OE would show the
header in strikethrough text; but the header would still be there).

So what's the point of having a synchronization setting of "no
synchronization" if OE is going to synchronize anyway? Doesn't make
sense. And, like I said, didn't used to be that way. I remember a point
where OE would keep downloaded headers indefinitely.

Also, what's the point of having a "Delete news messages X days after
being downloaded" if OE is just going to delete them anyway, regardless
of the setting. Again, doesn't make sense.


A newsgroup is synchronized when you view the newsgroup if you are
online.
Old messages will be removed when they expire from the server.
The synchronization settings apply to downloading of messages, not to the
removal of old messages.
If you do not want messages from a particular folder or newsgroup to be
downloaded, click Don't Synchronize.

So what you're saying is that if I click "Don't Synchronize," then
messages from that particular newsgroup will not be downloaded. Is that
what you're saying? Because that appears to be what you're saying. Yet I
have "Don't Synchronize" set for ALL my newsgroups. Yet I don't seem to
have any problem downloading messages.

So, what am I not seeing here?



The only way to keep old messages is to move them to a user created
folder.



"If you do not want messages from a particular folder or newsgroup to be
downloaded, click Don't Synchronize." comes from OE help.
Tools, Accounts, newsgroup server settings has Include this account when
sending and receiving.
All newsgroups under that server will be affected by that setting.
Each newsgroup has synchronization settings. Those settings apply when OE
sends and receives.
When you view a newsgroup and you are online, that newsgroup will be
synchronized and headers, new messages only, or all messages will be
downloaded.
By being online and entering the newsgroup, you are telling OE to
synchronize.
You can't get new messages or headers without synchronizing.
--
Ronald Sommer