Re: Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them
Salvador Mirzo <[email protected]>
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Grant Taylor <[email protected]> writes: >> Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins >> when organizations can't/won't archive them > > No, not really. Not in the way that most people think about an archive. > > Most news servers have limited retention. Usually somewhere between > days and years. But there is usually an upper bound on how long > things are retained for. > > Once you get past retention, then you have the problem of accessing > older articles. Quite right, Grant. It does seem important---or at least very neat---that we could log message-ids in papers or personal notes or something when we want to look up a post in the future. We have al.howardnight.net today (though it appears broken today). Sometimes I think about stopping everything I'm doing and focusing on building the best system I can built to make an all-time archive of USENET posts indexed by message-id. With a prototype in motion, perhaps we could find the resources to make it a reality.