Re: Quantity and addresses of antique Usenet peers that carry full text feeds?

On 28.03.24 20:11, SugarBug wrote:

I wonder how many peers are carrying and preserving fulltext historical and curent Usenet feeds.
 Will anyone give a ballpark number?
 Which peers have articles remotest in antiquity?
 Even guesstimates might be useful.
 

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