Pretty much all of the issues about keeping messages are solved by using
Thunderbird as your news reader. With it you can easily download
messages to your local drive and keep them as long as you want or delete
what you don't want. FYI all messages in this group from Oct 13, 2004 to
today use 99,034KB. Not really that much. Using Thunderbird will not
help with messages already deleted from the server but just think of how
many messages you can save in the future.

David Myle wrote:
How can I access the archives of Public Excel programming posts from
Outlook Express?

TIA