Having read about the new news server I wasn't surprised when I observed an exceptionally large download a few days ago when I accessed usenet "Ah! yes, renumbering on the new server" I thought but I wasn't expecting quite what I got. Luckily I was downloading headers only for four groups because the headers went back to 2005!
I've now deleted all the duplicate headers and have successfully downloaded all the full articles I require so I'm back to normal but, just out of interest, I thought I'd see how long the full articles were being kept on the new server and to my amazement discovered that, even in very busy groups, full articles back to 2005 were still there!
Bruce.
