[Info-vax] Google Groups unresponsive (was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?)

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <nospam-40E4F5.13103520042013 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article <kkr9vh$teb$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
>  m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:
> 
>> In article <nospam-EECE63.13181719042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> > 
>> > Thanks but I was trying to use Google Groups for searching old messages, 
>> > not for reading and posting.
>>  
>> Still no alternative for accessing 1990's usenet?
> 
> Not any that I know of.  I have more than once toyed with the idea of 
> keeping copies of the newsgroups I am interested in, but the last time I 
> looked at terms and conditions for news providers they seemed to 
> prohibit republishing.

Considering the very nature of USENET News I find that rather hard to
believe.  NewsServerA sends articles to NewServerB who further floods
them to NewsServerC, NewsServerD, NewsServerE and NewsServerF. Repeat
ad infinitum at each server.

bill
 

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