Losing messages...

[Tony Talmage]

This is the fourth time now I've come to this NG in Outlook Express (only
this NG - for some reason, never any others) and found all messages, watched
or not, completely deleted. This is frustrating as I typically keep
messages watched for long periods in case I need to refer to them for myself
or for the benefit of others. Any ideas at all with this limited amount of
information (unfortunately I cannot provide more) why my messages might be
getting deleted?

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Tony Talmage
Web Developer
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600

 

[Kath Adams]

This is the fourth time now I've come to this NG in Outlook Express
(only this NG - for some reason, never any others) and found all
messages, watched or not, completely deleted. This is frustrating as
I typically keep messages watched for long periods in case I need to
refer to them for myself or for the benefit of others. Any ideas at
all with this limited amount of information (unfortunately I cannot
provide more) why my messages might be getting deleted?

You might do better actually posting in an OE newsgroup, but a couple of
suggestions spring to mind. Are you using the MS news server to
subscribe to this NG or your ISP's? Some ISP's "age" the posts rather
quickly and do not have long retention times.
There is also a "watched message bug" :-
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/problems/bugs.htm#acctwatch

OE6 newsgroup :-
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

 

[Richard Urban]

Create a sub folder under your local folders called "save", "helpful hints"
or any other name. Copy any newsgroup message you want to save to that
folder.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Tony Talmage]

I'm using microsoft.public.windowsxp.general with news.microsoft.com as my
nntp. I'll try posting out on the oe NG and see if they have any clues.
Thanks.

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Tony Talmage
Web Developer
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600

 

[Tony Talmage]

Aye, that would circumvent the symptom, but not correct the problem. Any
ideas on what could be done to avoid messages being erroneously deleted
altogether?

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Tony Talmage
Web Developer
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600