In this newsgroup (and not others on the mailserver I use) I find that
most threads start with a "Re:" article, referfing to something that I
never see.
I'm reasonably competent with NNTP protocol (having used it for about 20
years) which is why I mention that other groups on the same server are
not affected. I think the problem in this group is recent (about 3
months) but I suffer memory problems, so I may be wrong about that.
My news client (Thunderbird, probably irrelevant) is set to expire
articles after 93 days, which is a lower limit than the server. Thus I
never see articles which have expired off the server. This may be where
the thread opening article(s) is going.
Is it likely that I'm seeing responses to articles which have exceeded
my self-imposed 93 day limit and been expired from my client? This
doesn't seem the sort of group where articles come back to life after
more than 93 days. Is it?
I view this group every day as my "first thing in the morning cathartic
experience" so I'm not likely to have missed the original starts of the
threads, yet none of the threads with missing openings seem familiar.
--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk
