James Robinson wrote:
Is there a way to access the older posts from this group? I have just rejoined via the Eternal September/Thunderbird route, and I can only see
the last year's worth of posts.
When you set up soc.genealogy.medieval there would have been a dialog
box for download headers which has options Download all headers or, the default, to download a set number which is preset to 500 most recent.
If you took the defaults then that limits the oldest you can see. I'm
not sure offhand how to get back to that dialog to select something else
other than unsubscribing and resubscribing which would be your best bet.
This saves headers locally so you need to have the storage available for
that.
Having said that I don't know how far back ES's archive goes. The
oldest archive AFAIK is GigaNews's. What you could do is select some
other group that might be relatively small, subscribe to that and
select, say a couple of thousand and see how far back that gets you.
FWIW my s.g.ireland headers Igo back further than my s.g.medieval so you
could try that. If it looks OK then go back to s.g.medieval,
unsubscribe, resubscribe, select all or at least a large number and hang
on for a long download.
If that doesn't help it might be worth checking out your ISP. My own
includes GN as part of the subscription. It goes awry from time-to-time
as the authentication between the two breaks down but once I get
whoever's on the help desk to find somebody who actually knows that
Usenet etc. is it gets sorted.
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