| Usenet Archives [message #397127] |
Mon, 27 July 2020 06:42  |
faux_dameron
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For those who aren't aware, decades of usenet archives are available at
archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
Each file is listed by hierarchy and each newsgroup is it's own file in
mbox format. I personally use Thunderbird with the "ImportExportTools NG"
addon which allows me to import the messages directly to Thunderbird. If
you use Linux you can also import then into Evolution if that's your cup
of tea. Some of the older messages are always broken and are missing
dates but for the most part, they are intact and very interesting.
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| Re: Usenet Archives [message #397133 is a reply to message #397128] |
Mon, 27 July 2020 09:34  |
faux_dameron
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:14:43 +0200, Bo Lindbergh wrote:
> Not all that useful. Nothing after 2013; in the alt.folklore.computers
> case, very sparse coverage before 2007.
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> /Bo Lindbergh
It is for general research and interest. For example, you can find the
original threads in comp.os.minix when Linus was setting up Linux and
having them on your own machine to review is a lot better than Google's
clunky interface.
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| Re: Usenet Archives [message #397137 is a reply to message #397127] |
Mon, 27 July 2020 10:53 |
Jorgen Grahn
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On Mon, 2020-07-27, Jason Evans wrote:
> For those who aren't aware, decades of usenet archives are available at
> archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
https://archive.org/details/usenet looks like an even better entry
point: it also has the "Giganews Usenet Collection" and so on.
It would have been nice if the level of completeness was stated
somewhere. Is it larger or smaller than DejaNews was? I seem to
remember them asking around for tapes of archives back then, getting
a large collection from Henry Spencer, and so on.
> Each file is listed by hierarchy and each newsgroup is it's own file in
> mbox format. I personally use Thunderbird with the "ImportExportTools NG"
> addon which allows me to import the messages directly to Thunderbird. If
> you use Linux you can also import then into Evolution if that's your cup
> of tea.
Or /any/ half-decent mail reader; mbox is (or should be) a widely
understood file format.
> Some of the older messages are always broken and are missing dates
> but for the most part, they are intact and very interesting.
/Jorgen
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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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| Re: Usenet Archives [message #397140 is a reply to message #397137] |
Mon, 27 July 2020 11:30 |
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Originally posted by: JimP
On 27 Jul 2020 14:53:36 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-07-27, Jason Evans wrote:
>> For those who aren't aware, decades of usenet archives are available at
>> archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
>
> https://archive.org/details/usenet looks like an even better entry
> point: it also has the "Giganews Usenet Collection" and so on.
>
> It would have been nice if the level of completeness was stated
> somewhere. Is it larger or smaller than DejaNews was? I seem to
> remember them asking around for tapes of archives back then, getting
> a large collection from Henry Spencer, and so on.
It doesn't have the one alt newsgroup I was hoping it had. Tryoing to
look up old posts using googie news is a major pain.
--
Jim
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| Re: Usenet Archives [message #397184 is a reply to message #397140] |
Tue, 28 July 2020 07:04 |
Jorgen Grahn
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On Mon, 2020-07-27, JimP wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2020 14:53:36 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-07-27, Jason Evans wrote:
>>> For those who aren't aware, decades of usenet archives are available at
>>> archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/usenet looks like an even better entry
>> point: it also has the "Giganews Usenet Collection" and so on.
>>
>> It would have been nice if the level of completeness was stated
>> somewhere. Is it larger or smaller than DejaNews was? I seem to
>> remember them asking around for tapes of archives back then, getting
>> a large collection from Henry Spencer, and so on.
>
> It doesn't have the one alt newsgroup I was hoping it had. Trying to
> look up old posts using googie news is a major pain.
The last few times I tried with Google I failed, so now I've stopped
trying ...
/Jorgen
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