On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:22:43 -0400, Gary R. Schmidt wrote
(in article ):

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:29:38 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
wrote:

"jc" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:38:20 GMT, "Alan Erskine"

wrote:

Alan, no matter how he posted it someone would have whined like a baby
about
something. Is it so hard to simply ignore the stuff you don't like
without all
the whining and complaining?
Yes, it is too much to ask. As I suggested, servers have limited
capacity;
putting up as much data as J3 did at one time might exclude other's posts.

No servers I know of have limited capacity.
For Binaries???

Yes, for binaries. Newsguy and Giganews, to name two newsfeeds I know of,
keep binaries for 100 days or more.

Often those who carry them limit the space and/or
retention time of them, some as low as 24 hours, but most are around 5
or 10 days.

Some of the commercial Usenet operations, e.g. OctaNews, carry them for
a lot longer, 3 months or so.

Yep.


Cheers,
Gary B-)