Re: Archiving Usenet 2003-2025

"Billy G. (go-while)" <no-reply@no.spam> posted:

Cool project idea, i already did the same.
 
Here is everything you can get from archive.org and probably everything
you can get from the biggest paid providers....
 

Impressive, some content goes back to 1983, before the "Great Renaming",
but checking comp.lang.tcl also shows a new message posted today.
There are nearly half a million groups listed, but many appear to be bogus
with names which are typos and no or minimal content.

I wonder if I could add lux-feed1.newsdeef.eu as another upstream server for
my newsgrouper.org web/usenet gateway? I'm loading XOVER data into a local
database to support efficient searching; I'm also loading some old article
data from the Internet Archive and the "utzoo" archive into another local
database, but for most articles I then pull the content on-demand from
these servers:
- eternal-september.org for recent posts
- blueworldhosting.com for history back to 2003

Could I add your server to this list?

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