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?
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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 just want to fetch via gnus some old articles I posted some time ago, now that I've just really started using Gnus. David: >> 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. Andrzej Adam Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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" Thanks for your replies. Andrzej, your indication seems very interesting: I put in my ~/.gnus.el the stuff reported in the info: (setq gnus-refer-article-method '(current (nnweb "google" (nnweb-type google)))) , then in the nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnus summary buffer I did 'M-^' and entered the Message-ID I was looking for; I waited for a while for gnus to search into google, then the message: Opening nnweb server on google...done Loading url-auth...done Contacting host: www.google.com:80 Loading url-cache...done Contacting host: groups.google.com:80 Trying again (2)... Contacting host: www.google.com:80 Requested article not found Generating summary...done Fetched article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No such article (may have expired or been canceled) Contacting host: groups.google.com:80 . Should I give it up and accept the defeat? But I insist that the article is present in Google archives, at: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/browse_thread/thread/6bb69dcdf1548e17/10c9d5f223a33d19?q=medina&rnum=4#10c9d5f223a33d19 , and also in the archives of the info-gnus-english@gnu.org mailing list, here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnus-english/2004-09/msg00114.html , so it *can't* be really expired or canceled, and there *must* (or should) be a way to fetch it via gnus. Other toughts/suggestions? Cheers, Rodolfo _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
