Where did they go

[Guest]

I have posted several questions and received answers to Access and now I do a
look up and they are all gone? Its been a while but is there a new way to
retrieve these?

Thanks!
Stacey

 

[Allen Browne]

The posts do expire after a time.

Try searching at:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en

 

[Joseph Meehan]

I have posted several questions and received answers to Access and
now I do a look up and they are all gone? Its been a while but is
there a new way to retrieve these?

Thanks!
Stacey

They do get cleaned out after a time. Depending on how you are
accessing the newsgroup, you may be able to save messages on your own
machine to be read anytime you wish. I use Outlook Express and it is easy.

 

[Granny Spitz via AccessMonster.com]

The posts do expire after a time.

Posts don't expire, unanswered questions do. The questions that don't get
marked expire after a few weeks, because there's no reason to keep unanswered
questions or bad answers. Questions marked as answers stay for years so
people can search through them. Stacey should mark answers she wants to keep.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I have posted several questions and received answers to Access and
now I do a look up and they are all gone? Its been a while but is
there a new way to retrieve these?

Try using Google Groups to search for your old posts:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

 

[Allen Browne]

Granny, you might find that the behavior depends on what you use to read the
newsgroups.

The Microsoft Communities web-based interface has its own rules.

Websites such as AccessMonster that freeload off Usenet probably have
another set of rules.

If you read Usenet through your ISP's news server, they will have their own
rules to determine when to remove old news.

And newsgroup client software may also have its own rules. For example, the
setting in MS Outlook Express 6 is named:
Delete news messages xx days after being downloaded
and found under:
Tools | Options | Maintenance

 

[Granny Spitz via AccessMonster.com]

Granny, you might find that the behavior depends on what you use to read the
newsgroups.

Thanks for the explanation. Stacey posts from the Microsoft communities so
her problem was due to their rules. That's why I explained only their rules
to her.