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From: Craig Reed
Subject: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 9 Mar 2007 16:50:48
Message: <Xns98EE8CDF3CC71tharkun860@203.29.75.35>
Hi -

I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of some 
years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.  I was under the 
impression that they were all stored on the server - was there a disk crash 
or other catastrophe?


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 9 Mar 2007 22:51:27
Message: <45f22b3f$1@news.povray.org>
Could be your newsreader? On the web interface I can see messages as old as 
1998, for example:
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/?ttop=239649&toff=7850

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Craig Reed" <tha### [at] publicspamcom> wrote in message 
news:Xns98EE8CDF3CC71tharkun860@203.29.75.35...
> Hi -
>
> I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of some
> years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.  I was under the
> impression that they were all stored on the server - was there a disk 
> crash
> or other catastrophe?
>


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From: dlm
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 9 Mar 2007 23:16:07
Message: <45f23107$1@news.povray.org>
"Craig Reed" <tha### [at] publicspamcom> wrote in message 
news:Xns98EE8CDF3CC71tharkun860@203.29.75.35...
> Hi -
>
> I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of some
> years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.

Craig,
They appear to go back to Jan 1999
See http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/?ttop=239683&toff=10250
What author name were you using and did you post in '99?
You can always Google 'site:news.povray.org authorname' to discover 
everything you ever posted.
You can always post to povray.off-topic :)
DLM


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From: Karl Anders
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 10 Mar 2007 02:40:00
Message: <web.45f260a68df38e0b535fe5290@news.povray.org>
"dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote:
> You can always Google 'site:news.povray.org authorname' to discover
> everything you ever posted.

This would be beautiful, but is not quite true.
Example from my own ramblings:
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C3cdb6b98%40news.povray.org%3E/
SHOULD show if you Google 'site:news.povray.org Anders julia',
but doesn't !

Have a nice weekend
Karl


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 10 Mar 2007 06:59:20
Message: <45f29d98$1@news.povray.org>
Nope, it shows if you google Anders julia_fractal though, so the search does 
go back that far.

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Karl Anders" <kar### [at] webde> wrote in message 
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> "dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote:
>> You can always Google 'site:news.povray.org authorname' to discover
>> everything you ever posted.
>
> This would be beautiful, but is not quite true.
> Example from my own ramblings:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C3cdb6b98%40news.povray.org%3E/
> SHOULD show if you Google 'site:news.povray.org Anders julia',
> but doesn't !
>
> Have a nice weekend
> Karl
>


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 10 Mar 2007 23:58:58
Message: <45f38c92@news.povray.org>
Craig Reed wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of some 
> years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.  I was under the 
> impression that they were all stored on the server - was there a disk crash 
> or other catastrophe?
> 

The earliest message that shows up in my newsreader (Mozilla 
Thunderbird) is dated 12/13/1998 12:19 PM, from Jerome M. BERGER, titled 
"Re: The Plane (91K)".

Did you want something earlier than that?

...Chambers


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 11 Mar 2007 00:03:53
Message: <45f38db9@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:
> Nope, it shows if you google Anders julia_fractal though, so the search does 
> go back that far.
> 

Time to shamelessly plug my Firefox search plugin.  Original post here:
http://news.povray.org/45a026fb%40news.povray.org

...Chambers


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 11 Mar 2007 15:20:25
Message: <45f46489$1@news.povray.org>
High!

Tek wrote:
> Could be your newsreader? On the web interface I can see messages as old as 
> 1998, for example:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/?ttop=239649&toff=7850
> 

This is true in general - but, already in back in 2000 when I just 
discovered povray.binaries.imagesm I noticed that a large chunk of 
1999's messages (about eight months) went lost... not to mention 1998, 
of which only the last days of December exist on the server!

See you on www.khyberspace.de !

Yadgar

Now playing: Points Of A Compass (Peru)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 11 Mar 2007 16:20:58
Message: <dls8v21nk3pf02j5akt4kbntbp4ivvhf8i@4ax.com>

wrote:

>High!
>
>Tek wrote:
>> Could be your newsreader? On the web interface I can see messages as old as 
>> 1998, for example:
>> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/?ttop=239649&toff=7850
>> 
>
>This is true in general - but, already in back in 2000 when I just 
>discovered povray.binaries.imagesm I noticed that a large chunk of 
>1999's messages (about eight months) went lost... not to mention 1998, 
>of which only the last days of December exist on the server!
>
It's not just as far back as that. I was looking for an animation post called
the graveyard shift that I made in 2003. I can find replies to the post but my
original one and the animation has gone. A shame for me as I lost the original
in a HD crash.

Regards
	Stephen


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From: Larry Hudson
Subject: Re: Off-topic, perhaps, but - where are the old articles?
Date: 11 Mar 2007 18:25:27
Message: <45f48fe7$1@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> Craig Reed wrote:
> 
>> Hi -
>>       [...]
> 
> The earliest message that shows up in my newsreader (Mozilla 
> Thunderbird) is dated 12/13/1998 12:19 PM, from Jerome M. BERGER, titled 
> "Re: The Plane (91K)".

Interesting...  The oldest message that shows up in my copy of 
Thunderbird is dated 01/04/1980.     (Irrelevant, but interesting.)     :-)

> ...Chambers

      -=- Larry -=-


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