CarboHolic wrote:

"Bob May" wrote in message
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Sounds like you don't understand the UseNet newsgroups.
There is no central location where these messages are kept so you have no
single point that you can "repair" the newsgroup. In addition, this is a
nonmoderated group so there is not anybody that can delete improper posts.
As to the 48K posts, that is all that your newsgroup server has at the
moment for the last x number of days in it's memory. There are a lot more
than that that have been posted to the group over the many years that it
has been around.

Sounds like my ISP should do the housecleaning.

Not necessary. Are you sure you are not talking about the messages
cached by your newsreader? For example, when on my newsreader the
cache gets to about 20'000 messages I remove the expired messages and
this leaves only around 10'000.

- Alex