XPost: aioe.helpdesk
From: tom@0.0.0.0
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:55 -0800
tom wrote:
> 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.
>
If I were to re-subscribe to Giganews or a similarly walled off
service, would there be any way to setup automatic mirroring? I was
thinking I could write a script that automatically leeches useposts and
distributes them.
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