NNTP instead of mail

[Adrian Vickers]

At 20:15 08/03/2005, you 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?

Um, yes...

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

Probably not, strictly speaking.