Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: news.admin.peering Subject: Re: Quantity and addresses of antique Usenet peers that carry full text feeds? Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 15:16:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:16:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4442aefb2186058a1695ec6e7ff07da1"; logging-data="2696609"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ijd6YkEPmkc5lSEwY7bSDOtFwv6+XjlFRIj6hScBUYA==" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-9 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UCxQnp7iLjzZAK+AeQAax4NMmDI= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 23:03 this Sunday (GMT): > On 3/28/2024 8:11 PM, SugarBug wrote: >> I wonder how many peers are carrying and preserving fulltext historical and curent Usenet feeds. >> >> Will anyone give a ballpark number? >> >> Which peers have articles remotest in antiquity? >> >> Even guesstimates might be useful. >> > > The question is how much of that really is useful, considering the flood > of spam the last few decades. There was still plenty of legitimate conversation, and filtering/skipping the spam should be easier in retrospect. You could also apply the existing spam reports for a portion of it. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom