Posted by anthonyberet on 09/07/05 22:29

1@odds.com wrote:
<snip>
> I'm
> not too sure of what happened after that but it appears the Giganews
> claim to retain text groups for 760+ days was put to the test. A
> challenge of planting a response to a random post made a couple years
> ago was made, and apparently proved to be impossible.

This is the bit which bothers me. If Giganews has a retention of 760
days, then you would expect to see posts 760 days old still on the server.
This would seem to be the case, as you replied to a old post (which has
expired from my server).
Your reply posts are never dated the same as the post replied-to, all
posts should be dated with the date they are posted, and should
propagate with that date.
- It wont resurrect the previous post on servers which have expired it,
and your reply wont have a historical date - as far as I can see,
everything here is as expected.

As I can't see the old post, I don't know who you were replying to.
- However, your quoting could be bad, in that the quote is attributed to
Secret, but the text quoted seems to be *to* Secret.

I can't really be arsed to search googlegroups or other archives to find
out.

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