Re: Archive Any And All Text Usenet

On 9/03/24 19:01, Ross Finlayson wrote:

[snip]  I wonder how to define an
"archive any and all text usenet", AAATU,
filesystem convention, as a sort of "Library
Filesystem Format", LFF.
 The idea is that each "message", "post", has an ID,
then as far as that's good, that each group
in the hierarchy has a name, and that, each
message has a date.  Then, the idea is to
make an LFF, that makes a folder for a group,
for a date, each its messages.
 a.b.c/YYYY/MMDD/HHMM/

A filesystem is not a good match for all possible problems. Have you considered an SQL database, which IS a good match for a large number of problems?

There are very useful notions of "mbox" and
"maildir", with the idea that LFF or "maillff",
and mbox and maildir variously have a great
affinity.

These were a good idea when they were invented. SQL is a good idea now that it has also been invented. Most implementations do not suffer from the limitations you talk about below as well as other limitations you did not talk about below.
Another system you might be interested in is BitTorrent. I believe Library Genesis (an illegal backup of all published books) uses this for resilience. They divided the entire library into some number of torrents and then told people to go and seed the torrents so that if the library goes away, it can be reconstructed. Yours wouldn't be illegal, of course.