All those groups are still on Altopia, but their retention sucks. Only
webeweb and walls had anything other then spam.
-McMurphy your psychic advisor
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 11:04:01 -0500, innocuous
<innocuous@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:09:18 +0100, 3DCM@gmm.at wrote:
>
>>On a.b.w_tp there are a lot of uncorrupted interesting files
>>(polarlights etc.).
>>Does someone know passwords which way_topost (the morse man) used in
>>2012?
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>Coinicidentally, Astraweb dropped a slew of newsgroups 8 days after
>you posted this.
>
> Headers Database Upgrade
> Posted By: Alex On: 18 Dec 2017 11:09 PM
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>
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>
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>
>These groups, among others, are now completely inaccessible (no
>headers or bodies available) after this so-called upgrade:
>
>a.b.aoi
>a.b.errorman
>a.b.p.wals
>a.b.p.webeweb
>a.b.p.willeymodels
>a.b.p.youth-and-beauty
>a.b.way_topost
>
>How's that for a lump of coal? While they've long been dormant (except
>for spam), they were home to close to 10 years' worth of posts within
>the retention of most pay servers, including Astraweb. They are gone,
>and they're not carried by Giganews or Easynews either.
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