Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 22:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199708310215.WAA13593@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: kifox AT hotmail DOT com
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <5u8q1b$g5a@winter.news.erols.com> (kifox@hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: The mail archives
Precedence: bulk


> >Flame me to a crispy black mass of carbon if I'm wrong, but aren't the
> >DJGPP mail archives obsolete now that there're things like Deja news
> >archiving all of usenet? (sans spam I hope) Everything in the list gets
> >gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp which gets archived by Deja
> >News. Or do the DJ archives offer some special advantage, DJGPP-specific,
> >over Deja news?
> 
> Deja news is vastly overated. I rarely if ever use it. It's a pain to use 
> and doesn't contain every article posted unless they're not honoring the 
> no-x-archive header that people who don't want their postings archived by 
> services like deja news use.

The DJGPP mail archives don't expire either.  I've got mail back to
1993.