Re: Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?

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?