On 06/12/2012 10:05 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:48:11 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
The down side of NNTP to my mind is that it expires. You service provider is the one that decides how long any group stays on his server. Well, in our case, we haven't yet run into the disk limitation, so we have the full archive. But there are NNTP-based tools like leafnode that let you store a local archive if you so choose.
NNTP is designed to be a distributed messaging system - that's how USENET is implemented, certainly.
For the most part, the forum NNTP server has all the messages going back to the very start of the server. We don't purge messages other than to remove spam or messages that violate the terms and conditions of use of the forums.
Jim
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