• for TB(ES), the set of posts i see for each group is complete?

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 8 11:32:02 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers

    maybe this is a ES (Eternal September) question.

    The oldest post i see in this TB group is 12/12/2023.


    In another group, i see posts from 10+ years ago. e.g.-------

    alt.discuss.html ---- i'm seeing a long thread from 2013
    and a one from 2008 (to which i just replied)

    Is this a complete set of posts for this group (alt.discuss.html) ?


    --------- i'm asking... for TB(ES),
    Subject to differing expiration period for each group (?)

    the set of posts i see for each group is pretty complete?

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to snipeco.2@gmail.com on Thu May 9 17:30:09 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers

    Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote at 20:48 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2024 8:32 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    maybe this is a ES (Eternal September) question.

    The oldest post i see in this TB group is 12/12/2023.


    In another group, i see posts from 10+ years ago. e.g.-------

    alt.discuss.html ---- i'm seeing a long thread from 2013
    and a one from 2008 (to which i just replied)

    Is this a complete set of posts for this group (alt.discuss.html) ?


    --------- i'm asking... for TB(ES),
    Subject to differing expiration period for each group (?)

    the set of posts i see for each group is pretty complete?

    It is likely that the messages on E-S are stored in a way that overwrite
    the oldest ones when the storage fills. The TB groups is rather active,
    while I assume the other groups is rather less so.

    IIRC alt.comp.software.thunderbird was newgrouped only quite recently,
    to replace the Mozilla t'bird group that was lost when Mozilla closed
    its newsserver. Storage of articles on the E-S version of alt.comp.software.thunderbird commences when Ray created it on his
    server shortly after it was newgrouped.


    Oh, so the article numbers are still low?
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  • From dillinger@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 10 19:52:11 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers

    On 09/05/2024 19:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote at 20:48 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/8/2024 8:32 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    maybe this is a ES (Eternal September) question.

    The oldest post i see in this TB group is 12/12/2023.


    In another group, i see posts from 10+ years ago. e.g.-------

    alt.discuss.html ---- i'm seeing a long thread from 2013
    and a one from 2008 (to which i just replied)

    Is this a complete set of posts for this group (alt.discuss.html) ?


    --------- i'm asking... for TB(ES),
    Subject to differing expiration period for each group (?) >>>>
    the set of posts i see for each group is pretty complete?

    It is likely that the messages on E-S are stored in a way that overwrite >>> the oldest ones when the storage fills. The TB groups is rather active,
    while I assume the other groups is rather less so.

    IIRC alt.comp.software.thunderbird was newgrouped only quite recently,
    to replace the Mozilla t'bird group that was lost when Mozilla closed
    its newsserver. Storage of articles on the E-S version of
    alt.comp.software.thunderbird commences when Ray created it on his
    server shortly after it was newgrouped.


    Oh, so the article numbers are still low?

    Andy created these groups April 2021, first post April 2.
    On my ISP's server alt.comp.software.thunderbird now has 12803 posts.
    My ISP doesn't do any filtering, afaik, but I do, so there could be some
    more.

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