Will there be any trimming of posts from the povray server?  Or is what
I "see" only on my hard disk??   I notice that most groups on the povray
server only go back to around 1/99.

If so, the povray community should be warned so that they could download
the most important tutorials, info, etc....

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In article <384AC0A9.A404B144@my-dejanews.com> , "Greg M. Johnson" 
<gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:

> Will there be any trimming of posts from the povray server?  Or is what
> I "see" only on my hard disk??   I notice that most groups on the povray
> server only go back to around 1/99.

Yes, because you did not download all articles :-)  Currently povray.general
for example has over 16000 (!!!) messages.

Please read povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions "Welcome to the
POV-Ray News Server !", section "Message Storage".


    Thorsten


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On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:44:41 -0500, "Greg M. Johnson"
<gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:

>Will there be any trimming of posts from the povray server?  Or is what
>I "see" only on my hard disk??   I notice that most groups on the povray
>server only go back to around 1/99.

  Greg, none are planned for the immediate future. All articles and
binaries ever posted are still on the server with the exceptions of
cancelled posts and those older than a (now) 14 day period in
p.off-topic.

  Have you looked at your preference settings in Netscape? Perhaps you
can set the date back for message retrieval.

>If so, the povray community should be warned so that they could download
>the most important tutorials, info, etc....

  I don't foresee any problems with the server when the clocks trip into
the New Year but you can do so, if you wish.

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Thanks. I wasn't expecting a world-ending catastrophe for Y2K, but feared
someone deciding to trim messages more than a year old. But now I see that
the starting date of the posts in one's reader are due to the choices that
one makes.........

Alan Kong wrote:

>   I don't foresee any problems with the server when the clocks trip into
> the New Year but you can do so, if you wish.
>
> --
> Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <384acb27@news.povray.org>...
>Yes, because you did not download all articles :-)  Currently
povray.general
>for example has over 16000 (!!!) messages.


Then why do I only have 14500 of them?  The oldest I have is from 12/12/96.

Mark

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Mark Wagner wrote:
> 
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <384acb27@news.povray.org>...
> >Yes, because you did not download all articles :-)  Currently
> povray.general
> >for example has over 16000 (!!!) messages.
> 
> Then why do I only have 14500 of them?  The oldest I have is from 12/12/96.
> 
> Mark

Probably because Thorsten has not discarded the cancelled messages. I'm
showing 13,438 total message for this group with the oldest one dated
Dec 12, 1969.

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When I open this group, it says that there are a bit over 17000 articles.

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On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:36:08 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>...with the oldest one dated Dec 12, 1969.

  ?

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Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:36:08 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >...with the oldest one dated Dec 12, 1969.
> 
>   ?

Never mind.

Subject: Re: Need a book object... (help please?)
   Date: Tue, 01 Jan 1980 08:48:45 -0300
    rom: Antonio Viojo <avi### [at] adinetcomuy>

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