In article <mailman.1518.1244869596.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > As for the use of X-Noarchive headers... Back before Google, most >NNTP servers had automatic expiration of messages (on my ISP at the >time, the binary groups expired after 24 hours!, most messages expired >after one or two weeks). I never used X-Noarchive -- in truth, I didn't >even know about it. > > THEN... Google started doing Google Groups with no automatic >expiration. That is when the subject of X-Noarchive headers came up in >some of the groups I'd been following. I and a fair number of others >immediately took advantage of it.
Actually, it's not really fair to blame Google for this, they were only following the design of DejaNews, which they purchased in 2001. Google did create some additional value by finding old Usenet archives that predated DejaNews. (Google Groups, which I normally refer to as Gooja in deference to the history, debuted the archive on Dec 10, 2001.) -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
