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  • Usenet can be an archive of last resort for organizational bulletins when organizations can't/won't archive them

    From pschleck@pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups,rec.radio.amateur.policy on Wed Feb 26 06:11:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    The Letter, along with other bulletins, is also posted to Usenet
    newsgroups:

    https://www.novabbs.com/tech/thread.php?group=rec.radio.amateur.misc

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/1ixyzsd/usenet_can_be_an_archive_of_last_resort_for/

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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups,rec.radio.amateur.policy on Wed Feb 26 11:50:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    Paul W. Schleck <pschleck@panix.com> wrote:

    The Letter, along with other bulletins, is also posted to Usenet
    newsgroups:

    <https://www.novabbs.com/tech/thread.php?group=rec.radio.amateur.misc>

    <https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/1ixyzsd/usenet_can_be_an_archive_of_last_resort_for/>


    IMHO the rec.radio.amateur.* groups were ruined by being swamped
    with reposted blogs; at least, that's why I gave up on them. If I want
    to read a blog I'll go directly to it, TYVM.
    --
    ^-^. Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS My pet rock Gordon just is.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups,rec.radio.amateur.policy on Wed Feb 26 12:44:31 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

    IMHO the rec.radio.amateur.* groups were ruined by being swamped
    with reposted blogs; at least, that's why I gave up on them. If I want
    to read a blog I'll go directly to it, TYVM.

    That's a trend? Someone suggested doing exactly that in ...

    Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
    Subject: RFD: Gopher articles to newsgroup
    Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:57:28 +0200
    Message-ID: <vf0ds6$kldt$1@solani.org>

    ..., but luckily it did not happen.
    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.
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  • From Grant Taylor@gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups,rec.radio.amateur.policy on Wed Feb 26 20:17:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    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.
    --
    Grant. . . .
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  • From Salvador Mirzo@smirzo@example.com to alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups,rec.radio.amateur.policy on Thu Feb 27 13:40:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> 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.
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