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Nov 24, 2004 4 Replies

Does anyone know how to retrieve old news group messages that has been deleted from the computer? Thanks John


Google groups. Or maybe unsubscribe then resubscribe to the group?

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:10:49 -0500, John Carroll vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:

remove ns from my header address to reply via email

That will only work as far back as your ISP keeps the messages. That may not be as long as even you have kept them. Many only keep back a week or less.

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:57:00 -0500, John Carroll calmly ranted:

How old? Your news server will have a limited back supply of messages. Google Groups (formerly "Deja Vu") has the archives for older stuff. You're using Mozilla, so visit the support section of

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for potential ways of doing that. Dropping and resubscribing to the group is one way, but that'll seldom give you messages from beyond 2 weeks ago.

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