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From: Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.logic,sci.physics.relativity
Subject: Re: Is Rossy Boy the new Archy Boy (Was: Larger Collected Reasoning
 2024)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:37:38 +0100
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You can check out your newserver here:

https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/

For example it says for http://www.eternal-september.org/

Retention is currently 2 years for de.*,
160 days for the Big 8, 130 days for alt.*
and 90 days for other hierarchies.

So Big 8 is only 160 days.

Ross Finlayson schrieb:
> On 12/19/2024 06:16 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>> Nope, it lands nowhere and gets deleted after
>> a while. This is called the retention time.
>>
>> Different servers will have different
>> retention times for the same newsgroup;
>> some may keep posts for as little as one
>> or two weeks, others may hold them for many years.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup#Types
>>
>> Do you find any of your posts from 12
>> years ago on an ordinary news server?
>>
>> Ross Finlayson schrieb:
>>>
>>> Yeah, every USENET post sort of lands right in
>>> the Library of Congress, don't you know.
>>
> 
> Sure, some modern services have 20+ years text retention,
> if you were following news.admin when Google Groups
> cut itself loose from usenet after turning into a
> vandalistic spam-hive that it could obviously mitigate,
> about "Archive All Text Usenet", some fellow furthermore
> posted a feed of like all of text usenet and like
> including the DejaNews CD's contents and these, yeah.
> 
> It's not even like 4 terabytes.  Less than a 1000 movies, say.
> 
> What are you a clown?  I'm not buying your spam.
> 
>