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From: Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Eternal-september problems
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 13:10:40 +0100
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On 11/08/2024 07:56, Silvano wrote:
> candycanearter07 hat am 11.08.2024 um 07:50 geschrieben:
>> Boris <nospam@invalid.com> wrote at 02:42 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote in
>>> news:1qy3urs.ksuyhatn0tc0N%snipeco.2@gmail.com:
>>>
>>>> Boris <nospam@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>> My (and others') E-S newsgroups lost most of their content, only
>>>>>> recent messages were kept. Someone will try to restore them but it
>>>>>> takes time, three weeks for a start. See in e-s.support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the newsgroups I subscribe to now only retain articles back to
>>>>> June 29, 2024.  Retention used to be way back to 2022.  As you can see,
>>>>> I use Xnews.  I've tried "Refresh Headers Special", but none of the
>>>>> older articles comes back.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wonder if this will be fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ray Banana, the E-S Admin, is working on it; it's a big job.
>>>> As mentioned, see eternal-september.support for details.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  I was looking for a 'support' tab on www.eternal-september.org.
>>> Finally realized to go to the newsgroup you cite.
>>>
>>> Looks like Ray Banana has a big job.  Hope it's not toast.
>>
>> Besides rec.arts.comics.creative, I don't entirely care about conserving
>> old messages, but I do hope he can get everything sorted out and we
>> won't lose more recent messages in the jump ^^
> 
> Learnt the hard way after losing interesting messages. If you want to
> keep old messages, copy them to a folder on _your_ computer. Server
> problems and closures will not bother you anymore.

Or a router which has decided to play up just when you need it!

> And make a backup to an external disk to be doubly sure. I still have
> messages from 2014 here.

+1

-- 
Jeff