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Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 25 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>>>> R> nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/2094
>>
>> I wish people wouldn't post references like that -- 
>
> Oops.  I don't recall why I wrote it in this way.  

Sorry, it wasn't aimed at your post or the specific link.  It was just
an observation about that using NNTP URLs is a bad idea in general.

>> [1] Also, if gmane ever disappears, noone will be able to track the
>> reference.
>
> Hm?  If Gmane will ever would disappear (why?), the messages from
> `gmane.discuss' will probably disappear too, I guess.

Dunno, some people (like me) never expire their local news spool, so it
might survive somewhere on somebodys hard drive.