G'day Nancy
 On Wed Feb 04, 1998 Nancy Wood wrote in a message to Alan Hess:
 NW> For example, on our particular system, the echoes Jeff and I
 NW> moderate are set high numerically, so we have references to fall
 NW> back on  if a problem occurs.  Some of the less trafficked areas
 NW> get set at lower numeric levels. I know I sure don't want to
 NW> respond to something that was posted several months ago if the echo
 NW> only gets around 10-20 messages a week and the echo's numeric level
 NW> is set at 1000. (making it more conducive for the echo's numeric
 NW> level to be around 200 instead).
 NW> But then there are those areas that get 200 or more messages a day,
 NW> something that would mean a brand new set of messages would come in
 NW> everyday if the echo and people would have to keep up daily with
 NW> their mail deliveries just to have an idea what was going on.
 > Do newsgroups work the same way, or does it depend on the
 > news server you access?  *adh*
 NW> I've not really dealt with enough newsgroups to give you a good
 NW> answer on this one. Everyone I've gotten usually has a limitation -
 NW> or possibly it's a limit that is imposed by my ISP.
The feeling I get from my ISP is that their newsgroups are maintianed at a 7 
day limmitation which basiclly would make this part of newsgroups the same as 
Fido echoes. Set the deletion status as required.
            Takin' it easy
          --
         slockwood@one.net.au
--- FMail/Win32 1.22
---------------