Re: [cobalt-users] mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:

> > But it has a downside as well.  It won't archive on your own system with
> > reasonable defaults you set for your newsreader for other newsgroups.
> 
> What do you mean by that?
> 
> You can choose an expiration period for each newsgroup you have. For
> example you could set so that messages in the (non-existent) cobalt
> newsgroup would be stored forever. And still you could say that
> "comp.os.linux.*" should only be stored for 14 days before being
> thrown out.

Something else I didn't know.  Probably because I use Netscape to read
news, and I just found it listed (rather unintuatively to me, but
probably reasonably when I think about it) under "disk space".

I'm learning.

Jeff
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