Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009

http://www.englishforums.com/English/AltUsageEnglish/Forum7075.htm

For the simple reason they are two different forums, with no
crosspointing.

Also, alt.usage.english is basically a UUNET newsgroup, while the
other one is  basically a Web forum.

Also, your newsgroup reader is very probably working in the NNTP
protocol, not the Web protocol. You can't see Web forums with an NNTP
client.

Marius Hancu

Maybe because your usenet service provider filters out spam? who are they?

On 12 Jan 2009, minimus wrote

Probably because they're noted on there as having been posted over 5
years ago.

I'm not aware of any news services that retain posts for that sort of
time.

Because most of them are old.

Your newsgroup reader gets messages from the motzarella.org newsserver. Like
other newsservers that stores only recent messages (a few days, perhaps).

minimus wrote, in <gkfegh$vgt$1@news.motzarella.org>
on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:53:35 +0100:

They are too old.  Your server appears to be motzarella and I don't
think they keep more than a couple of months worth of messages.

If you want to find the rest of the threads in which they appear go to
<http://www.google.ie/advanced_search?hl=en> and look for them there
though they may not be complete if some of the participants are
specifying NoArchive.

Thanks to all of you