From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:15:30 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is this group backed up some where? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:15:31 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <657af337-9594-476f-99cf-fe6fa9b02de8@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.118.61 X-Trace: sv3-7pQV0I0cCCf+41D8H6XcfVDzdYhFkXWCgf4S8b5jqJiwYde+PxZGcVCGdmIfLPz235ckiDbmtwSyDOa!8FXVo/a/qmNYgZvx5Dv/sFRSQMC4eHdMVF7ArJR4f07NKtv5qHdjqsPu3xkZdi5/j/Zizur5TMTR!/37Eik5iTqc1nNmEyNW+HWNxUj4= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1958 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2465752295 X-Received-Bytes: 2201 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50101 Date: 2018-01-24T11:15:31-05:00 List-Id: On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 06:43:50 -0800 (PST), "MichaelD1234@aol.com" declaimed the following: >Are posts from years ago backed up somewhere? > This is a Usenet news group -- by definition such are distributed peer-to-peer message passing systems. Retention of messages is dependent upon the policies of each entity providing a news server. I recall a time when my ISP rotated text groups via a monthly expiration, and binary groups were expired in something like 36 hours. The closest long term known archive might be the copy found on Google Groups (but since Google doesn't vet users, there are many of us on Usenet that tend to filter out messages from GG as much spam comes from them). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/