How to access the archive

[Russ Allbery]

Martin Neuditschko <yosuke.tomoe at gmx.net> writes:

> I have configured INN to archive a newsgroup. It is working well and I
> am able to see the news in the archive-directory, but I also want to
> access the archive with my news-client.  I have not found any
> documentation about that. Not in the man page of archive nor in the FAQs
> of the package.

The archive program that comes with INN doesn't store messages in a form
suitable for retrieval with a news client.  If you want to keep the
articles accessible, it's better to just not expire them.

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