Am 24.07.2018 um 11:50 schrieb Chris Cason:
> On 22/07/2018 18:27, Mike Horvath wrote:
>> How do I go back and read very old threads in Thunderbird? I know I can 
>> use the Web interface, but I prefer the news reader. Thanks.
> 
> Note that povray.off-topic is (or was) 'special' in that when we set it
> up some 20 years ago we intentionally set the article retention period
> to only two weeks (from memory). It was intended to keep things fresh,
> avoid using up too much storage, and pretty much replicated how most
> NNTP servers worked in those days.
> 
> Sometime in the last decade or so I decided the storage issue was no
> longer important (new server, more disk space ...) so changed it.
> There's possibly still some limit on it but it's certainly not two weeks
> like it used to be.

p.o.t. currently seems to have a retention period of 4 weeks, give or take.

Post a reply to this message