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From: Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives
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Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 08:14:49 +0000
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David Goodwin wrote:

> In article <8ma5l776vv.fsf@raybanana.net>, rayban@raybanana.net says...
>> 
>> Thus spake Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
>>  
>> > Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
>> >  <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
>> >  <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
>> > 
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
>> >  <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after
22Feb24
>> 
>> Both https://cmacleod.me.uk and https://www.novabbs.com/ are web
>> frontends for Usenet servers with limited retention and daily expiry
>> runs, so they do not qualify as Usenet archives, IMNSHO.

> I'm surprised limited retention is a thing for servers providing only 
> text newsgroups at this point. The usenet-historical archive (which 
> appears to be a copy of the Google Groups archive up to around 2013) is 
> apparently only 2.62TB uncompressed.

-- 
Retro Guy