Re: NNTP - how to check for removed newsgroups ?

"Andrzej P. Wozniak" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general
Organization ICM, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Osoba podpisana jako R.Wieser <[email protected]>
w artykule <news:[email protected]> pisze:

> Andrzej,
>
>> It's very simple. Just subscribe control.rmgroup newsgroup on your
>> newsserver.
> Thanks, I would never have tought of that.

The control.* newsgroups usually keeps only control messages sent to the 
specific newsserver - either by the newsadmin or by approved users of that 
server (f.e. cancel messages).

(...)
>> * control messages may expire like other messages and you can't see old
>> messages.
> Yep.  Though in the case of ES the retaining time seems to be at least a
> decade (earliest entry is of march 2015). :-)

E-S in general has 8 year retention.

If you want to know more details, you should better ask your questions 
there:
news://news.eternal-september.org/eternal-september.support
It's E-S local newsgroup which should be available only on E-S newsserver. 
Note that for NNTP "local" means group in a local hierarchy (like the 
linked e-s one) or local newsgroup distribution (set by "Distribution" 
field in a message header).

If you want to talk about newsgroups subscribed in your newsreader, you 
should rather use term "offline".

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Andrzej P. Woźniak  [email protected]  (swap z<->h in address)
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