Posted by Greg Schmidt on 06/02/05 22:34

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:29:49 +0100, Toby Inkster wrote:

> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
>> "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
>> This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."
>>
>> What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply?
>
> Use a real newsreader -- then you can set it to archive messages for
> however long you like.

And if I go on vacation for a week, so that the post has expired both
from my news provider's queue and from Google? Or if I, for whatever
reason, don't realize that I'm interested in the post until some later
date (e.g. for all those people who will discover this group a week or a
month or a year from now)?

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Greg Schmidt gregs@trawna.com
Trawna Publications http://trawna.com/

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