[Info-vax] USEnet Archives

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2024-11-16 22:08:07 +0000, John H. Reinhardt said:

> Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts 
> from USEnet?  I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently 
> does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete 
> any messages" and the two sources I have - Eternal-September and 
> news.individual.net only store the last few years worth.  I tried 
> getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad 
> article number"


News server providers may or may not have much depth in their local 
newsgroup archives.

For deeper archives:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/usenet-archive-utzoo-online/

https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.os.vms&y=0&r=0&p=1

https://www.usenetarchives.com/stats.php

The Usenet Archive has been working on improving their search capabilities.


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