From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79420 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to display read articles? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:27:19 -0700 Message-ID: <874o2wn8zc.fsf@psinom.home> References: <87sjqjsuqp.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <878vsbg5ow.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87tyayoi8f.fsf@psinom.home> <87aacq5mft.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310135569 18712 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 14:32:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:32:49 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27716@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 08 16:32:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfC6k-0007d9-Sc for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:32:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QfC69-00063F-5i; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QfC67-000630-G4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:32:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QfC65-00011u-MD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QfC62-00035a-S0 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:31:58 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfC62-0007De-O4 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:31:58 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:31:58 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:31:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RtGrHfxE/jblkew0/pNPAk/iprQ= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79420 Archived-At: lee writes: > Are you sure the articles are available? How do you know that they are > when they aren't found? When you're looking at a newsgroup on a news > server, they might not be available. > ok that's what i suspected. the articles just aren't available on the server. so unlike a forum where articles stay forever (unless the forum gets pruned), the server doesn't serve some stuff after a while. hmmm ... time to look into how to save threads then i guess. i'm still new to the newsgroups concepts. -- in friendship, prad