Re: OE Is Deleting My NG Headers

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Thank you for this very helpful response.

"Rich/rerat" <rrr_news@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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"Neil" <nrgins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm using OE6 as my newsgroup reader. I keep losing my already-downloaded
headings from newsgroups. Very frustrating. I want to keep them.

Under Options, Maintenance, I have every box UNCHECKED, and all my
subscribed newsgroups are set to Don't Synchronize. What am I doing wrong?
How can I keep OE from periodically deleting my downloaded headers?

Thanks!




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