It never made sense and its been a problem since OE4. It won't be fixed, so
if you wish to keep NG messages, you have to copy them to local folders.
That is the only way. People complained about this for many years and MS
just ignored them.

steve

"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.