Missing Newsgroup

03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and "obfuscated" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.

15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.

16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
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Ascendro
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Missing Newsgroup

Post by Ascendro »

Can you please add the following new newsgroup to the search index: alt.binaries.tv.deutsch.dokumentation
Thanks in advance.
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alex
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Post by alex »

i added it but currently only newshosting has it, if usenetserver has "add newsgroup" form try to contact them so there will be more than one source.
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Ascendro
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Post by Ascendro »

Yes, I'm using Newshosting.com, but I think that this newsgroup will get more traffic in the near future.
The other NSP's I'm using (Buzzardnews, Astraweb, Usenet-News) don't carry this group at the moment.

Unfortunately I don't use UNS.
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Josef K
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Post by Josef K »

I don't know about the other two but you can read at Astraweb:
Astraweb wrote:Members can now add a group anonymously. Login to your account and click "add a group". You will be given a URL which changes daily for security reasons. You can then add a group at that URL. Your username nor any of your personal details are NOT logged.
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alex
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Post by alex »

if newshosting doesn't add articles in newsgroups out of order (i don't know, ask their support) and provides sufficient completeness one source should be ok too.

but i see newsgroups tend to be added, e.g. someone asked a week ago to add alt.binaries.hotrod, at the time no newsserver was carrying it and now there are two newsservers which have it.
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Ascendro
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Post by Ascendro »

@Josef K: Thanks for the tipp. I've requested the newsgroup at Astraweb.
alex wrote:if newshosting doesn't add articles in newsgroups out of order (i don't know, ask their support) and provides sufficient completeness one source should be ok too.
Newshosting has already the mentioned newsgroup with the full article count and I'm able to download the articles too. Thanks for the extension of your search engine to this group.
From which provider(s) did you receive the header informations for your search service?
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Ody55ey
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Post by Ody55ey »

I also requested the group added to NGroups (who are excellent by the way :wink: and also have a 70+ day retention)

They replied:
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Hello,

I have aded the group alt.binaries.tv.deutsch.dokumentation to the list of groups that will be added at the next update.
Unfortunately, but due to a problem with the group-add process, it may take a bit longer than normal before it shows up on the systems.


Best Regards,

Support /Mike
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Hope this helps out you guys.
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Ascendro
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Post by Ascendro »

@Ody55ey: Thanks for your effort.
NGroups is a sister company from Usenet-News.net. The only difference between these 2 NSP's is that Usenet-News offers block-accounts and NGroups offers flatrates.
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