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  • archived articles available at usenetarchives.com date back to 1988

    From Don@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 19 14:55:45 2023
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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.

    Danke,

    --
    Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu
    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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Retro Guy@21:1/5 to Don on Tue Dec 19 15:02:43 2023
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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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Don@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 19 14:27:39 2023
    XPost: news.software.nntp, news.admin.peering

    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,

    --
    Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu
    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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Don on Tue Dec 19 19:38:01 2023
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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>)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Frank Slootweg on Wed Dec 20 17:11:10 2023
    On 19 Dec 2023 19:38:01 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote: >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.

    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>)

    (using Tor Browser 13.0.7) https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=news.software.nntp&mid=PDI1MUBqYW1lcy5jcy5iaGFtLmFjLnVrPg
    Karl Kleinpaste
    10/05/1988 22:31:45 UTC
    ***@c*.****.**c.uk writes:
    Hah! Symbolic links are for WIMPS!!!!! :-)
    Actually, they fit in really well with this bumper sticker that a
    friend made for me:
    Better Living Through Complexity
    And a common refrain around here is, "We have no shame - we use
    symlinks."
    :-)
    What I did is put the nntp-ified inews in lib/inews and the genuine
    2.11.14 inews in lib/local/inews. When I compiled nntpd I told it that
    inews was in lib/local/inews.
    What do you do about posting from the server machine? Did you compile
    all your other news software so as to know that the real inews is in >lib/local/inews?
    --Karl
    [end quote]

    these webified usenet archive sites might be useful if they included
    the option for viewing articles in their pristine raw message format;
    but at least "usenetarchives.com" is read-only and could be improved

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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