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From: Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it>
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Subject: Re: Eternal-september problems
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 08:56:20 +0200
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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.

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

P.S. I don't read NSR, but this discussion is more relevant to that NG.
So I don't set a follow-up, because I'd like to read the continuation.