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Re: News archive/Msg. Expiration
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Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:48:45 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:

Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote:
When these groups are announced to the r.t.l. as a whole, will these
"beta" posts be visible?  Also, is an archive planned?  I think what I
will miss most about reading Lego newsgroups via LUGNET is no archiving
and searching of messages like Dejanews provided for r.t.l.

I imagine (and I mean that -- I'm making this up right now, based completely
on my own little universe and not on anything I've read or seen) that Todd
will eventually make some sort of web-based access to the newsgroup,
including a search funciton.

Yea, that's the idea.  The search function may not appear before articles
have to be archived/expired, but they won't be tossed out.  In the worst
case, the old articles would still be available somewhere in some raw,
non-searchable way -- maybe via HTTP or maybe here via NNTP in some kind of
archives ng...

--Todd



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(...) Plan on abiding by the x-no-archive convention? Just curious - I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want their posts to show up in a lugnet archive, and, in fact, I regret having used the x-no-archive header for a long time in the past. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I imagine (and I mean that -- I'm making this up right now, based completely on my own little universe and not on anything I've read or seen) that Todd will eventually make some sort of web-based access to the newsgroup, including a search (...) (26 years ago, 30-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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