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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Nov 2004.
Re: ASCII Art Fart for Tue, 2004 Nov 9

Re: ASCII Art Fart for Tue, 2004 Nov 9

Aidan Karley wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > Or, they have learned that it is less stressful in the long run to have
> > a news reader that don't allow them to keep a lot of old junk lying
> > around (IOW, it is a perfectly sensible preference).
> >
>        Plausible for a personal machine.
>        In the UK, if you're an ISP you've got to keep comprehensive and
> usable archives of everything your customers post. I think it's for a
> period of 7 years. Failure to do so? Directors go to jail (potentially at
> least).
> <snip more of the same>

What you are talking about is archives kept on some server somewhere.
What I was talking about is a feature of some news readers and why
somebody might prefer that feature. One is a sysadmin's task and the
other is a personal usability preference. I don't see what those two
things have to do with each other.


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