[Oberon] comp.lang.oberon

[Alan Corey]

It does indeed depend on the news server, and the algorithm determining
what to keep possibly also depends on the server.

I'm on GigaNews, which emphasizes retention and completeness.  I can read
comp.lang.oberon back to a 3/24/2002 message about Oberon-0.  I can't be
sure that there aren't messages missing in the middle of course.

  Alan Corey

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 fischer at inf.ethz.ch wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 Charles Angelich <cangelich at famvid.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why/how do all the messages posted at comp.lang.oberon just
> > disappear after a few days?
> 
> The number of messages retained by each news server is probably
> dictated by the posting date + a retention period
> 
> The retention period is a parameter of the particular server.
> >From observation, we can infer that the ETH server
> stores postings for 2 weeks +
> and eliminates older postings every Mo.
> 
> Older matter must be retrieved from archives.
> Some are listed at the end of http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/support.html
> 
> The list is probably not exhaustive.
> 
> 
> Andr Fischer - fischer at inf.ethz.ch
> 
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