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Ok, I know this has been discussed before, but I am trying to really get my head around the different newsgroup types.

My question is this: besides not being able to use "natural" retention, what else am I giving up with the CB type exactly?? I can still have threading in CB, right? If a newsgroup is mostly binaries and some text, can I still follow the text messages with the CB type? Can I read threads, replies, can I reply myself?

Is the loss of natural retention the biggest (or only) disadvantage of the compact binary type?

Thanks!

-i.

you can set retention (e.g. equal to the longest server retention) in properties->newsgroups even on per newsgroup basis if necessary, the retention is applied when newsgroup is loaded (if set in properties->general->apply retention automatically on load) or when you invoke 'apply retention' from the context menu in the newsgroups pane.