Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some old messages sent to the present newsgroup > are not accessible, it seems, if I search for them via > nntp server, whereas they're seen through web interface > and also in the archives of the info-gnus-english@gnu.org mailing list. > How come?
Because even just "current" news is a huge disk space and bandwidth consumer, so it's standard practice for news servers to only keep around a small amount of recent history (maybe the past month) and expire articles beyond that. If you have infinite disk space and bandwidth than it's reasonable to archive all of Usenet (hi, Google Groups); if you're only archiving a specific group than the requirements become much more reasonable. I know you can use Gnus to preserve specific articles, and you can probably combine an nntp group and a Web archive for historical purposes, but I don't know details on either off hand. > Maybe there are some other nntp servers to read the present newsgroup, > besides news.gmane.org and news.gnus.org? gnu.emacs.gnus is "a normal Usenet group" (in a way that gmane groups generally aren't) and so any Usenet server that carries the gnu.* hierarchy would have it. (I'm reading on news.mit.edu, but you generally need to be inside MIT's network to use it.) --dzm _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
