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   tom to Aioe   
   Re: Archive of GigaNews feed for a.f.f   
   25 Nov 18 18:32:55   
   
   XPost: aioe.helpdesk   
   From: tom@0.0.0.0   
      
   On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:17:49 +0000 (UTC)   
   Aioe  wrote:   
      
   > Il Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:17:58 -0800, tom ha scritto:   
   >   
   > > I was auditing my backups the other day and I found a MailDir format   
   > > archive of GigaNews's Alt.Fan.Furry newsgroup. Would the operators   
   > > of AIOE be interested in importing it into the AIOE system, which   
   > > has more liberal peering policies with smaller nodes? It's about   
   > > ~60mb compressed.   
   >   
   > yes, i'm interested.   
   > At the same time, articles can be sent to a news server only if   
   > they're newer than a few weeks. My news server stores data in a   
   > cyclic buffer so every article is cancelled when each cycle ends.   
   > At this point, if i import historical articles in the spool, they're   
   > deleted after about 200 days because the spool ends its cycle.   
   > I'm planning to setup a (smaller) news server for historical data but   
   > i've no old USENET articles so i can't try   
   >   
      
   Oh they are definitely more than a few weeks old. A few months is more   
   accurate, but the A.F.F newsgroups moves so slowly I thought it could   
   spur more conversation and discussions.   
      
   I put my archive up at https://0x0.st/s09d.txz in a compressed tarball   
   format.   
      
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