In article <1995Aug17.105627@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (DON GALLO GLY) writes: > Most of the newsgroups have old, stale posts hanging around in them from > several months ago. Why is this? For example, rec.bicycling.marketplace > starts with post #4482 from 28-Jun and runs to 4505 from 29-Jun, then skips to > 6837 from 29-Jul to 6838 on the same day, then skips all the way up to 7706 on > 11-Aug. This is just an example, seems like every group has this problem abou t > the same dates. It appears as if the newer stuff is being removed but the > older stuff isn't. It causes the count to be way off. Is there anything that > can be done about it? You're right. I'm looking into the problem. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]