ee52ffr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Ante-Loraxis ) (03/16/91)
Whenever I look at this news system, there seens to be very few articles posted. I didn't find out why until I post my own news. My last article only remain posted for *1* day! How is anyone going to get enough reponses by just been posted for one day. I hope if anyone knows how to contact the news group. Please tell them to let the articles post longer. Thanks and please do not reply via email.
anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) (03/17/91)
In article <17549@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ee52ffr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Ante-Loraxis ) writes: >Whenever I look at this news system, there seens to be very few >articles posted. I didn't find out why until I post my own news. >My last article only remain posted for *1* day! How is anyone going >to get enough reponses by just been posted for one day. I hope if >anyone knows how to contact the news group. Please tell them to let >the articles post longer. Thanks and please do not reply via email. You should talk to your system administrator. Usenet News is fully distributed with no central control and nothing to control centrally. How things work there in San Diego can be quite different from how they work here in Milwaukee. Apparently whatever system you read news on expires very quickly, this might be because there is limited storage to keep news around. A full NetNews feed is about 10 MB a day, so it could be that all the days news is deleted at your site to make room for the next days news. My own system here keeps articles around for a few weeks, some systems have the storage to keep them around for months. By the way, the NewNews guidelines encourage the use of mail to reply to messages. Unless material is of general interest (this message probably isn't) it should be sent via mail. You might want to check out the newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.newusers.questions. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony Psion Mailing List subscriber submissions psion ----------\ the (human) moderator psion-owner -------+--@csd4.csd.uwm.edu subscriptions and file requests psion-request ----/