From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8173 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Eskilsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnweb /altavista searches.. Date: 03 Oct 1996 14:32:38 +0200 Sender: flognat@fukt.hk-r.se Message-ID: References: Reply-To: flognat@fukt.hk-r.se NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148377 10519 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA24634 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 06:20:53 -0700 Original-Received: from claymore.fukt.hk-r.se (claymore.fukt.hk-r.se [194.47.151.20]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:33:46 +0200 Original-Received: (from flognat@localhost) by claymore.fukt.hk-r.se (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00503; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:32:41 +0200 Original-To: Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch X-Url: http://www.pt.hk-r.se/~mpt95aes In-Reply-To: Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch's message of 03 Oct 1996 12:11:47 +0100 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8173 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8173 / Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch wrote: | | Andy Eskilsson writes: | | > And am I only dreaming when it would be nice to grab the article from | > the local newsserver (the 'l' button on the altavista search page?) | | Doesn't altavista have an entire database of news articles, not | restricted by age like the local newsservers? I may be wrong about | this... You are correct, but sometimes it might be faster getting the article from the local newsserver instead. And sometimes articles manage to get purged from altavista before my newsserver, dunno know why, must be me who has strange tastes :-) I don't want a change, just the possibility, freedom, freedom of choice.. uhm well.. then I also have the freedom to hack it myself.. brr. /Andy -- Hi I am an alien .sig, and at the moment I am having sex to your mind, by looking at your smile I can see that you like it. Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See for more info.