2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
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#2Wasn't this on Deja News that Google bought and integrated into Google groups? How is this archive different?
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#4Site: https://www.usenetarchives.com/
Though, the added 2.1M posts seems to be specifically among the ones here:
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#5has google stopped destroying things yet? https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/
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#6Interesting that COMP.LANG.LISP has posts dating last month. I guess the network isn't dead. I wonder if there are groups with interesting recent activity.
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#7Interesting that COMP.LANG.LISP has posts dating last month. I guess the network isn't dead. I wonder if there are groups with interesting recent activity.
Comp.sys.apple2 is active.
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#8Reminds me of http://www.bash.org/?top
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#9Wasn't this on Deja News that Google bought and integrated into Google groups? How is this archive different?
It doesn't feel like google has been a good steward of these archives. They blended usenet archives and google groups together in a really annoying way, content has erratically gone missing (see the lwn link that hprotagonist posted), and have seemingly lost interest overall--the whole google groups product has seemed neglected for years. My guess is the only reason it hasn't been sun-setted is that someone high up needs to remember it to kill it.
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#10Wasn't this on Deja News that Google bought and integrated into Google groups? How is this archive different?
There have been reports that some of those posts have been vanishing from Google Groups[0].
It's nice that this person/org is hosting these, but I'd feel more comfortable if archive.org (and perhaps another org or two) mirrored them as well. History shouldn't be dependent on some random person/org paying to host them. I thought things would be safe with Google and I was wrong. I'm definitely less confident that usenetarchives.com will be around forever.