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From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
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Subject: Re: Eternal-september problems
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:58:04 +0100
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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.

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