Older Bike Question

Paul Hobson writes:

Bill Sornson wrote:
Hey Don,

Often when I click on your posts I get an "expired" (or cancelled? --
"message is no longer available on the server") one and then it threads to a
"good" one that opens normally. Any idea what's going on?

News servers only retain the messages for so long. For example, Georgia
Tech's server (mine) holds on to them for a month. Other, non-academic
free ones will only heep them for a week (I've heard)

Yes but there have been a few times in the past few months where i've
tried to write a message and ended up canceling it 1 or even 2 times
in order to retype it or fix errors.

A few times I made the revised message a followup to the cancelled
message - before I've cancelled it - and he's probably trying to click
on a link that would take him to that cancelled message.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA

Donald Gillies wrote:
Paul Hobson writes:

Bill Sornson wrote:
Hey Don,

Often when I click on your posts I get an "expired" (or cancelled?
-- "message is no longer available on the server") one and then it
threads to a "good" one that opens normally. Any idea what's going
on?

News servers only retain the messages for so long. For example,
Georgia Tech's server (mine) holds on to them for a month. Other,
non-academic free ones will only heep them for a week (I've heard)

Yes but there have been a few times in the past few months where i've
tried to write a message and ended up canceling it 1 or even 2 times
in order to retype it or fix errors.

A few times I made the revised message a followup to the cancelled
message - before I've cancelled it - and he's probably trying to click
on a link that would take him to that cancelled message.

Ding-ding-ding! That would 'splain it...thanks.