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    From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 2 15:27:13 2024
    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?

    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 2 21:12:04 2024
    On 02.05.2024 um 15:27 Uhr Andrew wrote:

    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?

    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after
    22Feb24

    There is still
    http://al.howardknight.net/
    #you need to know the msgid

    IIRC there is also an archive in Austria, but I can't find it.

    blueworldhosting also aims to provide an archive.

    --
    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to 1714656433muell@cartoonies.org

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  • From Ray Banana@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 3 08:21:24 2024
    Thus spake Andrew <andrew@spam.net>

    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24

    Both https://cmacleod.me.uk and https://www.novabbs.com/ are web
    frontends for Usenet servers with limited retention and daily expiry
    runs, so they do not qualify as Usenet archives, IMNSHO.


    --
    Пу́тін — хуйло́
    https://www.eternal-september.org

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  • From David Goodwin@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 3 19:56:52 2024
    In article <8ma5l776vv.fsf@raybanana.net>, rayban@raybanana.net says...

    Thus spake Andrew <andrew@spam.net>

    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24

    Both https://cmacleod.me.uk and https://www.novabbs.com/ are web
    frontends for Usenet servers with limited retention and daily expiry
    runs, so they do not qualify as Usenet archives, IMNSHO.

    I'm surprised limited retention is a thing for servers providing only
    text newsgroups at this point. The usenet-historical archive (which
    appears to be a copy of the Google Groups archive up to around 2013) is apparently only 2.62TB uncompressed.

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  • From Retro Guy@21:1/5 to David Goodwin on Fri May 3 08:14:49 2024
    David Goodwin wrote:

    In article <8ma5l776vv.fsf@raybanana.net>, rayban@raybanana.net says...

    Thus spake Andrew <andrew@spam.net>

    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>

    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after
    22Feb24

    Both https://cmacleod.me.uk and https://www.novabbs.com/ are web
    frontends for Usenet servers with limited retention and daily expiry
    runs, so they do not qualify as Usenet archives, IMNSHO.

    I'm surprised limited retention is a thing for servers providing only
    text newsgroups at this point. The usenet-historical archive (which
    appears to be a copy of the Google Groups archive up to around 2013) is apparently only 2.62TB uncompressed.

    --
    Retro Guy

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Retro Guy@21:1/5 to David Goodwin on Fri May 3 08:21:25 2024
    David Goodwin wrote:

    In article <8ma5l776vv.fsf@raybanana.net>, rayban@raybanana.net says...

    Thus spake Andrew <andrew@spam.net>

    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>

    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after
    22Feb24

    Both https://cmacleod.me.uk and https://www.novabbs.com/ are web
    frontends for Usenet servers with limited retention and daily expiry
    runs, so they do not qualify as Usenet archives, IMNSHO.

    I'm surprised limited retention is a thing for servers providing only
    text newsgroups at this point. The usenet-historical archive (which
    appears to be a copy of the Google Groups archive up to around 2013) is apparently only 2.62TB uncompressed.

    For at least my case (www.novabbs.com), it's more a matter of resources to display (pull from db, thread, etc.), search and other tasks related to accessing data. For a web frontend, there is a bit more processing going on than just tossing the article to the client when requested. The server is
    doing the server and the client's job.

    --
    Retro Guy

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to Retro Guy on Fri May 3 16:03:04 2024
    On 2024-05-03, Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
    David Goodwin wrote:

    In article <8ma5l776vv.fsf@raybanana.net>, rayban@raybanana.net says...

    Thus spake Andrew <andrew@spam.net>

    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>

    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after
    22Feb24

    Both https://cmacleod.me.uk and https://www.novabbs.com/ are web
    frontends for Usenet servers with limited retention and daily expiry
    runs, so they do not qualify as Usenet archives, IMNSHO.

    I'm surprised limited retention is a thing for servers providing only
    text newsgroups at this point. The usenet-historical archive (which
    appears to be a copy of the Google Groups archive up to around 2013) is
    apparently only 2.62TB uncompressed.


    Hello I searched on some of those and none carry our hispagatos.*
    or alt.2600.madrid who do I contact to ask them to please peer those
    newsgroups ? I looked for an email but was not able to see it, maybe
    need better glasses :D :D

    En La Lucha.
    Happy Hacking
    ReK2

    ---
    - {gemini,https}://{,rek2.}hispagatos.org - mastodon: @rek2@hispagatos.space
    - [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid - https://hispagatos.space/@rek2
    - https://keyoxide.org/A31C7CE19D9C58084EA42BA26C0B0D11E9303EC5

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Ray Banana@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 3 20:03:48 2024
    Thus spake rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid>

    Hello I searched on some of those and none carry our hispagatos.*
    or alt.2600.madrid who do I contact to ask them to please peer those newsgroups ? I looked for an email but was not able to see it, maybe
    need better glasses :D :D

    FWIW: cmacleod.me.uk uses Eternal-September as its backend and hence
    carries your groups, e.g:

    https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/hispagatos.talk

    HTH

    --
    Пу́тін — хуйло́
    https://www.eternal-september.org

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to Ray Banana on Sat May 4 02:55:14 2024
    On 2024-05-03, Ray Banana <rayban@raybanana.net> wrote:
    Thus spake rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid>

    Hello I searched on some of those and none carry our hispagatos.*
    or alt.2600.madrid who do I contact to ask them to please peer those
    newsgroups ? I looked for an email but was not able to see it, maybe
    need better glasses :D :D

    FWIW: cmacleod.me.uk uses Eternal-September as its backend and hence
    carries your groups, e.g:

    https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/hispagatos.talk

    HTH


    Awesome, thanks for pointing this out, I did not check this one.


    En La Lucha.
    Happy Hacking
    ReK2

    --
    - {gemini,https}://{,rek2.}hispagatos.org - mastodon: @rek2@hispagatos.space
    - [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid - https://hispagatos.space/@rek2
    - https://keyoxide.org/A31C7CE19D9C58084EA42BA26C0B0D11E9303EC5

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 5 19:04:47 2024
    rek2 hispagatos wrote on Fri, 3 May 2024 16:03:04 -0000 (UTC) :

    Hello I searched on some of those and none carry our hispagatos.*
    or alt.2600.madrid who do I contact to ask them to please peer those newsgroups ?

    The narkive author is David Cavion.

    He's a nice guy who cares but doesn't have resources, based on his posts
    here and from my emails to him in the past.

    You can look up his email in the Usenet archives for this newsgroup, as
    even the Google archives will contain his posts.

    https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering (search for his name).

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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to Andrew on Sun May 5 20:58:54 2024
    On 2024-05-05, Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
    rek2 hispagatos wrote on Fri, 3 May 2024 16:03:04 -0000 (UTC) :

    Hello I searched on some of those and none carry our hispagatos.*
    or alt.2600.madrid who do I contact to ask them to please peer those
    newsgroups ?

    The narkive author is David Cavion.

    He's a nice guy who cares but doesn't have resources, based on his posts
    here and from my emails to him in the past.

    You can look up his email in the Usenet archives for this newsgroup, as
    even the Google archives will contain his posts.

    https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering (search for his name).


    Hello thanks! I did got in contact with him. Very nice indeed.
    he says he is pulling his newsgroups from giganews.

    Happy Hacking
    ReK2

    ---
    - {gemini,https}://{,rek2.}hispagatos.org - mastodon: @rek2@hispagatos.space
    - [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid - https://hispagatos.space/@rek2
    - https://keyoxide.org/A31C7CE19D9C58084EA42BA26C0B0D11E9303EC5

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Billy G. (go-while)@21:1/5 to Andrew on Sun May 12 13:23:47 2024
    On 02.05.24 17:27, Andrew wrote:
    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?

    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24

    i've imported and deduped all available usenet backups/mbox files from archive.org (several TB compressed) without any filtering and accepted
    every group that showed up which results in 471k groups so far at the Full-Node.

    'news.software.nntp' for example dates back to 1987.

    it should be readable via NNTP

    Part-Node (111k groups)
    file: http://104.244.74.85/usenet/active/part.active.txt
    host: 104.244.74.85:11119
    user: freefree
    pass: freefree


    Full-Node (471k groups)
    file: http://104.244.74.85/usenet/active/full.active.txt
    host: 104.244.74.85:11120
    user: freefree
    pass: freefree

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 15 02:28:31 2024
    Billy G. (go-while) wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 13:23:47 +0200 :

    On 02.05.24 17:27, Andrew wrote:
    Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?

    <https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/>
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/news.admin.peering>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=news.admin.peering>
    <https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.peering> No updates after 22Feb24

    i've imported and deduped all available usenet backups/mbox files from archive.org (several TB compressed) without any filtering and accepted
    every group that showed up which results in 471k groups so far at the Full-Node.

    'news.software.nntp' for example dates back to 1987.

    it should be readable via NNTP

    Part-Node (111k groups)
    file: http://104.244.74.85/usenet/active/part.active.txt
    host: 104.244.74.85:11119
    user: freefree
    pass: freefree

    Full-Node (471k groups)
    file: http://104.244.74.85/usenet/active/full.active.txt
    host: 104.244.74.85:11120
    user: freefree
    pass: freefree

    Thanks for pitching in to help the team as the one thing Google Groups was
    good for was that it was an updated web based search engine which didn't require special tools, retention rules, accounts, or a newsreader.

    All you needed was a browser and anyone could be sent a URL which they
    could read on their browser even if they couldn't even spell Usenet.

    However... I'm confused by your post.

    For a layperson such as I am, how would I use it to look up a post from,
    oh, say, yesterday in news.admin.peering?

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 17 15:58:56 2024
    I'm curious whether the HTTP source mentioned supports range-requests,
    and whether HEAD for those resources results also the size, with
    regards to making a HEAD request to get the size then making a plan
    to download these files which would be expected to be constant now
    in batches of range-requests and so on.

    It would be very much and greatly appreciated if these are indeed
    archives of pretty much all text usenet since the land before time.

    About how to search these is you break them out into whatever then
    makes for a summary of these files, like a pyramidal sort of
    organization, then as with regards generating summary which these
    days seems the "inverse-document-frequency" pattern as much as
    otherwise summary and links to document IDs, to, search or query
    for documents of a kind and result message-ID's their relevant
    documents, or "hits".

    If these are really the thing for something like "Archive Any and
    All Text Usenet" it would be pretty great with regards to these,
    and some of the other Internet Archive and other archives mentioned
    over the past few months as after Google quit Usenet (one imagines
    it was a bit too interesting to its latest/greatest knowledge gobble).

    Well then warm regards and I shall so hope that such a resource,
    as this portends to be, finds a good and fair usage. If so, good show.

    Unfortunately I don't understand a word you said but I will assume others
    who are Usenet aficionados understood.

    This is my assessment of the 4 known web-based no-login Usenet archive
    search and retrieval mechanisms which require no special Usenet skills.

    1. Nova (works the best for new messages posted after 22Feb24)
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=name.of.newsgroup>

    2. Google Groups (works the best for old messages prior to 22Feb24)
    <https://groups.google.com/g/name.of.newsgroup>

    3. CMacLeod (too many button clicks to be useful)
    <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/name.of.newsgroup>

    4. Narkive (nice site by a nice guy but fails too often to be useful)
    <https://name.of.newsgroup.narkive.com/>

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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