Re: Replacement for Google Groups?

Marion <marion@facts.com> posted:

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:03:00 GMT, Colin Macleod wrote :
 

I operate a web interface to Usenet at https://newsgrouper.org/ (text only).

 
2. The retention usually is excellent for web-based archives
3. The web-based archives generally have a decent search engine

Let me clarify these points. I don't run an nntp server with its own news
spool, I just pull articles on demand and then cache them locally.
I use three sources:
- nntp to eternal-september.org for current articles and uucp for posting.
  But E-S now has less than a year's worth of history.
- nntp to blueworldhosting.com for historical searches from 2003 to now.
- downloaded archive files from https://archive.org/details/usenet
  for historical searches from 1987 to 2013.

This means the search I can do on blueworldhosting is limited to the
capabilities of the nntp XPAT command - pattern matching on a single
header line.  For the archive.org files I can do full-text search.

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