-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199412132147.NAA13766@netcom12.netcom.com>, Timothy C. May <tcmay@netcom.com> wrote:
Netcom expires _all_ newsgroups, even its own ("netcom.*" local discussion groups), in the "normal" period of 2-3 weeks. There is no reason to expect them to make an exception for our group. If this is not made an exception, then a 3-week hang around period will hardly constitute an "archive." (Yes, it will reduce _some_ storage, by a shared pool, but only temporarily.)
nntp.hks.net's hks.lists.cypherpunks has back to June. We'll continue to keep at the very least one month back, even once we start archiving and expiring -- and the archives will be available by ftp. So people need only keep pointers to Message-IDs within the archives. I'll almost certainly hack something together that will retrieve articles on the Web in my copious spare time. For now all the articles are available both via nntp for newsreaders and ftp via ftp://ftp.hks.net/cypherpunks/nntp/cypherpunks/ (it's big). - -- Todd Masco | It's difficult to be loud about keeping your enumerated cactus@hks.net | rights when you're busy exercising your unenumerated ones. cactus@bb.com | http://www.hks.net/~cactus/cactus.html - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLu4tbyoZzwIn1bdtAQHLIAGAiAT5Vh2YJnduSJ0aJvSGDSbcBEhoIVz2 Fcjw0PfU1wlGLZsiDIiky6fEsms0EdnY =JKuL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----