Luke wrote:
"Harry" wrote in message
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I noticed tonight that all of the postings prior to March 29 no longer
appear in this NG. However, when I did a Google search on this NG, several
thousand postings came up going back at least 2 years, and probably
further. Has anyone else encountered this? BTW, I am accessing this NG via
AT&T Worldnet Service using Outlook Express.



Usenet is not one central server. The messages are distributed to
various ISPs all over the world. Some have more space and better retention
than others. You have a bad one. My rule of thumb is if you are not paying
at least $20/month for your internet access, you are not going to get very
good service. There is a reason these free and $4.99/month netnews services
are so cheap. Retention. For example, I pay $40 for Cable service and I am
seeing binaries that approach 2 years in age.


Luke


I'm paying Shaw about $40.00 a month and not even getting
some of the current posts