thank you for your explanation. >From now of on, i'll stop with my frequently posted messages. My sorry to you all. It was not my intention to disturb the visitors of the newsgroup. Maybe the first next time to send my message about my genealogical site, will be about one month. Kind regards arnold "Dennis Lee Bieber" <bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:YLHBh.2693$_73.2423@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:44:44 -0500, singhals <singhals@erols.com> > declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.misc: > >> I hate to "pile on", but Robert has said what some of us > > And I'll piggy-back on your post... > >> >> Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >> >> > The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that >> > not >> > everyone did >> > read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. >> > However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) > > Most ISPs keep newsgroup messages active for a few weeks -- it > depends upon how much activity the group gets and the storage space > available to the ISP. For text-only groups, I can reset my newsreader > and fetch messages all the way back to January 2006 from Earthlink > (Mindspring [Netcom]). Typically, binary groups get faster expirations > (at one time, Netcom was expiring binary message groups at ~24 hours) > due to the size of binary messages (UUencode or Base64 image files). > > People don't have to check a group daily -- if the ISP has a 30 day > expiration policy, one could check the group only on the day of a full > moon (~every 29 days) and still get ALL messages posted in that period. > > -- > bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber > HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/