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Retention for discussion groups, which hold only plain articles a few kilobytes each. Because text costs almost nothing to store, many servers keep it far longer than binaries, sometimes back to the 1990s or indefinitely. Quoted as a separate number on spec sheets; a service advertising 6,000 days of text and 3,000 of binaries is storing two very different volumes of data.
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