Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them

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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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