David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.)
Take a look at the group archive: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/msg/45694c47fa0b026a subject: backfill of usenet postings The post quotes: info "(gnus)Finding the Parent" -- [pl2en Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://anfi.homeunix.net/ _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
