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

On Sun, 12 May 2024 13:41:45 +0200
"Billy G. (go-while)" <no-reply@no.spam> wrote:

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

Unable to contact either server .....

torsocks telnet 104.244.74.85 11119
[proxychains] config file found: /etc/onion.proxychains.conf
[proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.4
Trying 104.244.74.85...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

torsocks wget http://104.244.74.85/usenet/active/full.active.txt
[proxychains] config file found: /etc/onion.proxychains.conf
[proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.4
--2024-09-27
12:40:55--  http://104.244.74.85/usenet/active/full.active.txt Connecting to 104.244.74.85:80... failed: Connection refused.