archived articles available at usenetarchives.com date back to 1988

Don

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Dec 19, 2023, 9:27:42 AM12/19/23

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A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
breadth and length, so to speak.

<https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>

But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
functionality.

Danke,

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There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.

Don

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Dec 19, 2023, 9:55:47 AM12/19/23

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A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
breadth and length, so to speak.

<https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>

But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
functionality.

###

Further inspection indicates the 1988 dates on news.software.nntp may be
an outlier. A spot check of a few other groups shows earliest dates in
the mid-1990s. Also, the archive's latest dates tend torwards April
30 2022. And, the quantity of articles archived for each group seems
low.

Retro Guy

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Dec 19, 2023, 10:05:28 AM12/19/23

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On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:55:45 -0000 (UTC), Don wrote:

> A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
> breadth and length, so to speak.
>
> <https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?
id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>
>
> But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
> functionality.
>
> ###
>
> Further inspection indicates the 1988 dates on news.software.nntp may be
> an outlier. A spot check of a few other groups shows earliest dates in
> the mid-1990s. Also, the archive's latest dates tend torwards April 30
> 2022. And, the quantity of articles archived for each group seems low.

I keep some old articles on news.novalink.us . It's static, and there are
a lot of empty groups, but there are also a lot of older articles there.
It's mostly the pre-renaming groups.

It's just running static. I'll keep it online as long as people are
interested.

Frank Slootweg

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Dec 19, 2023, 2:38:03 PM12/19/23

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Don <g...@crcomp.net> wrote:
> A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
> breadth and length, so to speak.
>
> <https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>
>
> But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
> functionality.
>
> Danke,

I see no way to get the complete article in source format, i.e.
including the headers, or at least some of the headers. Or am I missing
something obvious?

Also e-mail addresses (and other info?) in posts are heavily munged,
including in attribution lines, which makes them basically useless:

"***@c*.****.**c.uk writes:"

(third article in thread
<https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=news.software.nntp&mid=PDI1MUBqYW1lcy5jcy5iaGFtLmFjLnVrPg>)