Actually, AT&T varies the retention - I've seen articles retained in
news:alt.crafts.blacksmithing for 6 weeks or more; right now
news.answers has retained 422 articles (1 week's worth - and the same
retention as applies to ANY of the alt.binaries.pictues.* groups!)
JK
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>
> # I'm not sure how to proceed on this, but suggest that the "rules" be
> # modified to exempt the *.answers newsgroups from the "no more than 4
> # crossposts" rule (i.e., not count them toward crossposting).
>
> CSNIP
>
> # (while we're at it, it would be useful if the ISPs retained the
> # >*.answers groups for at least a month - AT&T keeps articles for 1
> # >week!)
> #
> # Now that's really bad.
>
> They probably just slapped a default rule on all
> groups and forgot to except *.answers. But they
> shouldn't have to remember to except that; it
> should be excepted from wildcard rules, because
> the only situation I can think of when I'd want
> news.answers to expire the same as everything
> else, is if I wanted a complete archive and
> expired nothing. (The mind boggles.)
>
> SNIP
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