I cleared out the database for this group, then rejoined, expecting to be
able to re-download recent messages.
However, the archive on the news server appears to have been emptied?
Previous messages and replies were as recent as 9/20/2007.

Anybody else seen this? I'm using Windows Mail as my news reader with
msnews.microsoft.com as the news server. Other subscribed groups appear to
be functioning normally.