Re: Early Jan 2006 Alarm Newsgroup Messages Missing ??

[J. Sloud <jsloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:57:04 -0400, Robert L Bass
<sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:04:54 GMT, bdolph <bdolph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> It looks like a bunch of  messages on this newsgroup are missing from
>> the beginning of this month.  Anybody know why and if it is fixable?
>
>As long as the messages are still on the NNTP server, you can
>just "download all" and they'll show up again.  If for some
>reason the server was down or they were purged, you're SOL.

Each newsgroup service provider has it's own NNTP servers.  They all
archive messages for different length of time.  It's possible that the
op's NSP has an archiving issue, but the messages would avaiable
elsewhere.  Try a different provider such as Google and see if they
are there.  Another possible reason is that the posts where cancelled,
although some NSP's disallow cancels or show the messages anyway.