Hi Kath

I have tried this but it makes no difference, eg. microsoft.public.uk.money
only has 17 news headers going back to only 10 Sep 06. How can I trawl
headers older than 10 Sep 06?

Please confirm you meant 'uncheck' the box as the numbers has now greyed
out.

Many thanks

Brian


"Kath Adams" wrote in message
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Onetel News wrote:
I have tried, without success, to increasers the numbers of news
headers that I cab access using TOOLS OPTIONS READ NEWS and
then get X headers at a time. I have inserted 500 as the figure, but
I can never open that many even in very popular news groups. It would
appear the oldest news header is about 14 days old.

Is there a date restriction as well as a numbers restriction for
downloading news headers? I would be grateful for any advice on how
can I increase the number of headers I can assess or how I can access
older headers.
Many thanks

Uncheck in the little box to the left of the place you would put the
number. This will get all headers.
Be aware, however, that not all news servers behave the same. There is no
date restriction as such in OE, but news servers will have different
retention periods. Once they are gone from the server, they are gone from
OE, unless you saved a copy in a user created folder. For older messages
that aged from the server, you can search Google Groups.

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Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)