Post ApziLChPm992L0NmZU by kbal@fedia.io
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 (DIR) Post #ApykFB6gmwsyPbV0BU by onan@dobbs.town
       2025-01-11T17:00:44Z
       
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       Part of usenet culture was that most people expected most of their posts to expire. It was known a private copy of a post could be made, but usenet itself deleted messages after a time as a storage-budgeting function. To re-post another person's post after it had expired was not always viewed with favor. There was no expectation that archives would or should be saved, nor that they would be largely available again as happened later.My lesson learned: assume nothing expires.:jrbd:
       
 (DIR) Post #Apz8MysmWIFJiQFP2u by Spud_Coolzip@dobbs.town
       2025-01-11T21:31:02Z
       
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       @onan Could this explain the attacks on Internet Archive?
       
 (DIR) Post #ApzF1qHdzkQIdzkC3M by onan@dobbs.town
       2025-01-11T22:45:39Z
       
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       @Spud_Coolzip I have my doubts that their usenet archives are the cause of attacks on Internet Archive, but who can say.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApzPub0RUrHwjMRftY by johnhattan@dobbs.town
       2025-01-12T00:47:36Z
       
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       @onan thanks to Dejanews and Google, my first 1991 post to comp.sys.tandy is still around.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApziLChPm992L0NmZU by kbal@fedia.io
       2025-01-11T18:38:38+00:00
       
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       It may be that no information is ever destroyed, it is only mixed and dispersed so thoroughly that retrieving it becomes impractical.  The NSA would probably have a hard time figuring out which accounts I posted to Usenet from.  It's surely far beyond my own abilities.