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Re: A little late to the party but...

From Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.infosystems.gemini
Subject Re: A little late to the party but...
Date 2025-06-25 15:31 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ydh603wrck.fsf@UBEblock.psr.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <20250619120610.102f85fe@ryz.dorfdsl.de> <1032e5s$89gs$1@dont-email.me> <103diiu$1rp44$1@dont-email.me> <103et87$272kb$1@dont-email.me> <772cc7d5-4981-70a6-d144-a94ee8a2db2c@nowhere.invalid>

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jmcs <jmcs@nowhere.invalid> asked:
> I wanted to ask: do you know what the "number of messages" represents?
> is it a total of messages ever, last month, last year...?

Newsgroup articles/messages seen by that particular server since it
began carrying that group, so it's a local count, not a world-wide
count.  It's also not necessarily a count of how many articles are still
available from that server, since news servers can have whatever
expiration policy they wish for each newsgroup, including "never".
["expiration": discard articles older than N days after receipt.]  If
you were to set up your own news server, its article numbers would begin
at 1 in each group and increase indefinitely.
 -WBE

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A little late to the party but... LV-426 <noreply@noreply.com> - 2025-06-19 02:58 +0000
  Re: A little late to the party but... Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-06-19 12:06 +0200
    Re: A little late to the party but... LV-426 <noreply@noreply.com> - 2025-06-19 23:28 +0000
    Re: A little late to the party but... Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2025-06-20 01:40 +0000
      Re: A little late to the party but... Rene Kita <mail@rkta.de> - 2025-06-24 07:02 +0000
        Re: A little late to the party but... Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2025-06-24 19:11 +0000
          Re: A little late to the party but... jmcs <jmcs@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-06-25 13:57 +0000
            Re: A little late to the party but... Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-25 14:02 +0000
            Re: A little late to the party but... Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> - 2025-06-25 15:31 -0400
          Re: A little late to the party but... Rene Kita <mail@rkta.de> - 2025-06-26 04:32 +0000
  Re: A little late to the party but... Koen Martens <in+usenet@metro.cx> - 2025-07-08 08:25 +0200
    Re: A little late to the party but... LV-426 <noreply@noreply.com> - 2025-07-10 00:19 +0000

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