On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:53:46 GMT, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:58:07 -0500, Andy wrote:
>
>> Click me?!?
>>
>> >
>>
>> This has been a test of bybassing the tinypic url and direct the rfc
>> members to the abf graphic posts.
>
>No such article. Is it more than 48 hours old? Then RoadRunenr
>expired it already (if it was in a binaries group).
>
>-sw

It's only 6 days old. Sounds like RR's retention is horrible.

Lou

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:58:15 GMT, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:09:20 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> It's only 6 days old. Sounds like RR's retention is horrible.
>
>news-server.austin.rr.com retention on binaries is about 36 hours.
>Pathetic, really.

Pathetic is an understatement. As I just told Andy I get almost 5
months from ABF. Many things I get take longer than 36 hours to get
all the .pars and .rars. 36 hours would make me as unhappy as being
stuck with google. (couldn't resist)

>I have my newsreader (40tude Dialog) set to download the first
>post of every thread when I collect headers in alt.binaries.food,
>so I don't miss anything.

Sounds like a cool feature. I don't know if Agent has that, but with
the retention I have it's not an issue

Lou

Steve Wertz wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:22:41 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>>> I have my newsreader (40tude Dialog) set to download the first
>>> post of every thread when I collect headers in alt.binaries.food,
>>> so I don't miss anything.
>>
>> Sounds like a cool feature. I don't know if Agent has that, but with
>> the retention I have it's not an issue
>
> I have both RR and SBC DSL. SBC's retention is a couple weeks.
> With RR's retention though, you'd really have to babysit any of
> the multi-part multimedia/binaries groups to get anything
> complete.
>
> RR should just bag the binary groups. I don't know if RR's other
> servers, (KC, Columbus, Tampa Bay, etc..) are any better.
>
> -sw

Nope, it's about 3 days retention on Tampa Bay's server for binaries.

kili