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

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:43:08 -0000, Tor User <onion@example.invalid> wrote:

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.

they were working for a few days (maybe weeks?) after this . . .

Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 01:39:33 +0200
Subject: Re: github.com/go-while/nntp-overview
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
References: <6SGrM.427956$hTH1.411991@fx14.ams4>
From: "Billy G. (go-while)" <no-reply@no.spam>
Organization: github.com/go-while
Message-ID: <6660e7cf$0$31818$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
>
On 13.07.23 02:12, go-while wrote:

Hello World!
just want to create a topic for my repo. maybe anyone finds it useful.
https://github.com/go-while/nntp-overview
it is running great so far and connected to a usenet server i'm writing.
Author
go-while

>
Update:
It's running! got 1.5 billion articles in this overview code
mariadb with rocksDB engine is powering the hashdb now
I'v put all sha256 hashs of message-ids with size in rocksdb
4k tables 000-fff, cutting first 3 chars of hash
only 75gigs of hashs in this database :D
maybe a little more. zfs compression earned 13%
Billy G. (go-while)

[end quoted excerpt]

but the results had very distinctive gaps, as in incomplete;
akaik, blueworld is the most complete free nntp server with
about 21+ years retention with many older archived articles
in quite a few newsgroups that i have tested over the years;

see also utzoo-wiseman archive http://annex.retroarchive.org/utzoo,
https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical with many hierarchies;