Re: Eternal-september problems

candycanearter07 hat am 11.08.2024 um 07:50 geschrieben:

Boris <nospam@invalid.com> wrote at 02:42 this Sunday (GMT):

snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote in
news:1qy3urs.ksuyhatn0tc0N%snipeco.2@gmail.com:
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Boris <nospam@invalid.com> wrote:
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My (and others') E-S newsgroups lost most of their content, only
recent messages were kept. Someone will try to restore them but it
takes time, three weeks for a start. See in e-s.support.
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Most of the newsgroups I subscribe to now only retain articles back to
June 29, 2024.  Retention used to be way back to 2022.  As you can see,
I use Xnews.  I've tried "Refresh Headers Special", but none of the
older articles comes back.
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Wonder if this will be fixed.
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Ray Banana, the E-S Admin, is working on it; it's a big job.
As mentioned, see eternal-september.support for details.

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Thanks.  I was looking for a 'support' tab on www.eternal-september.org.
Finally realized to go to the newsgroup you cite.
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Looks like Ray Banana has a big job.  Hope it's not toast.

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Besides rec.arts.comics.creative, I don't entirely care about conserving
old messages, but I do hope he can get everything sorted out and we
won't lose more recent messages in the jump ^^

 Learnt the hard way after losing interesting messages. If you want to
keep old messages, copy them to a folder on _your_ computer. Server
problems and closures will not bother you anymore.

And make a backup to an external disk to be doubly sure. I still have
messages from 2014 here.