NNTP instead of mail

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, John Foust wrote:

> At 01:38 PM 3/8/2005, Adrian Vickers wrote:
> >Well, touch wood - I've lost very few (if any) e-mails since 1996, when I first got connected to the Internet. Proper backups are the key, something too many people have forgotten these days, now that hardware is reliable[1].
>
> Yes, but does anyone here actually save every message?  I delete
> everything that's not of interest to me in the present.  This doesn't
> help me for the future, though, so chances are slim I'd be able to
> search my personal archives for references to a previously unknown device.

I don't save anything (well, unless you count the messages I leave in my
classiccmp folder that I intend to get to later).  But I expect the list
to be archived so I can always refer back to it.

> And speaking of backup, is it relevant to this discussion to know
> exactly how the mailing list archives are backed-up and/or mirrored?

Jay has done a decent enough job archiving it over the years, though I do
wonder if a complete mirror has been made.  If not, I think I'll be the
first to volunteer right here and now to be a CC archive mirror.

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