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- From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Subject: Re: HOW TO READ OLD ARTICLES ?
- In-Reply-To: etche@reseau.onecert.fr's message of 21 Dec 92 11:36:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <EMCGUIRE.92Dec21090913@mother.intellection.com>
- Sender: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Organization: Intellection, Inc.
- References: <2554@cix.cict.fr>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:09:13 GMT
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- In article <2554@cix.cict.fr> etche@reseau.onecert.fr (Groupe SUPAERO) writes:
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- I would like to read old articles of a group.
- I tried successfully to modify the .newsrc for
- quite recent articles.
- I can't recover for example the 100th article
- before the present ones.
-
- Like the printed newspaper, news is only kept around at your site for
- a few days, sometimes weeks. Old news is deleted. Most likely the
- old articles you want to read are already gone. Some helpful sites
- keep FTP archives of a limited set of groups, notably source groups.
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