Re: OE Is Deleting My NG Headers

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Rich/rerat

Those were the days <G>.

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Rich/rerat wrote:
Neil,
This featured was introduced in Outlook Express 5. It was considered
a "bug" in the beta stage, by some, and an improvement by others,
from OE4. So this "bug" or feature has been around close to a decade
now.

Since many ISP's are dropping newsgroup service, people have had to
choose another service. Many of the "free" news companies, have a
short retention period for storing messages on their servers. This
means they can keep their costs down, and be able to offer the free
service to the public. But it also means that this OE action will be
more noticeable to users, if they did not see it before, because
their former new service, had a longer message retention policy.
People will need to have to subscribe to News companies that have a
longer retention policy, which they will need to pay for themselves.
Or create a new local folder or folders, and copy/move the message
you want to keep to this (these) folder(s).

As stated many times in this newsgroup, the OE development team has
been disbanded, so their will be no new adjustments/fixes/upgrades to
this application, except for the occasional security update.

Here is a short list of newsgroup threads found in Google Newsgroups,
about this subject.

OE5 removes messages from local file! Thread Posted on 2/16/1999

microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie5beta.outlookexpress

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie5beta.outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/293b43659ef9421f?hl=en&q=oe4+removes+news+messages

Another thread about this Posted:

microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress newsgroup 6/26/2000

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/70cc5c79c3485c5f/b6e258565f148135?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=delete+news+messages#b6e258565f148135


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