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| From | Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.usenet, alt.culture.usenet, news.groups, rec.radio.amateur.policy |
| Subject | Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them |
| Date | 2025-02-27 13:40 -0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87bjun9w9c.fsf@example.com> (permalink) |
| References | <vpmbb7$1ql$1@reader1.panix.com> <vpoi00$mee$2@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net> |
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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> writes: >> Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins >> when organizations can't/won't archive them > > No, not really. Not in the way that most people think about an archive. > > Most news servers have limited retention. Usually somewhere between > days and years. But there is usually an upper bound on how long > things are retained for. > > Once you get past retention, then you have the problem of accessing > older articles. Quite right, Grant. It does seem important---or at least very neat---that we could log message-ids in papers or personal notes or something when we want to look up a post in the future. We have al.howardnight.net today (though it appears broken today). Sometimes I think about stopping everything I'm doing and focusing on building the best system I can built to make an all-time archive of USENET posts indexed by message-id. With a prototype in motion, perhaps we could find the resources to make it a reality.
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Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) - 2025-02-26 06:11 +0000
Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-02-26 11:50 +0000
Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-02-26 12:44 +0042
Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2025-02-26 20:17 -0600
Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-27 13:40 -0300
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