Re: Is Rossy Boy the new Archy Boy (Was: Larger Collected Reasoning 2024)

You can check out your newserver here:
https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/
For example it says for http://www.eternal-september.org/
Retention is currently 2 years for de.*,
160 days for the Big 8, 130 days for alt.*
and 90 days for other hierarchies.
So Big 8 is only 160 days.
Ross Finlayson schrieb:

On 12/19/2024 06:16 PM, Mild Shock wrote:

Nope, it lands nowhere and gets deleted after
a while. This is called the retention time.
>
Different servers will have different
retention times for the same newsgroup;
some may keep posts for as little as one
or two weeks, others may hold them for many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup#Types
>
Do you find any of your posts from 12
years ago on an ordinary news server?
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Ross Finlayson schrieb:

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Yeah, every USENET post sort of lands right in
the Library of Congress, don't you know.

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 Sure, some modern services have 20+ years text retention,
if you were following news.admin when Google Groups
cut itself loose from usenet after turning into a
vandalistic spam-hive that it could obviously mitigate,
about "Archive All Text Usenet", some fellow furthermore
posted a feed of like all of text usenet and like
including the DejaNews CD's contents and these, yeah.
 It's not even like 4 terabytes.  Less than a 1000 movies, say.
 What are you a clown?  I'm not buying your spam.