Re: [cobalt-users] newsgroup server

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, I'm all in favor of a private news-server serving the
cobalt.* hierarchy.

That said, let me answer something of yours inline:

Rodolfo Paiz wrote:

> However, I must ask (out of ignorance): while I would be much happier
> using news on a daily basis, several times already my 2000 stored
> messages from this list have functioned as my personal archives when I
> was offline and helped me more quickly diagnose a problem.

My personal archive of cobalt-users is over 7700 messages.

> Is there any
> easy way to do this? Otherwise, I personally would be much happier using
> *both* methods... reading news but having another computer/account
> download all the mail messages and store them.

As long as you download all the news before it expires, you can keep it
on your own system indefinitely.

Cobalt, since the server would be private, could agree to never expire
the posts.

Cobalt could set up a web-based archive for the posts.

Last (but in my opinion least desirable because it would make our email
addresses extremely public) Cobalt could arrange with deja to archive
the posts.

Jeff
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