Re: USENET archive(s) other than Google?

Bert Hyman wrote:
Google is apparently making great strides toward their goal of making
their USENET archive totally useless, if they haven't actually
achieved it over the weekend.

In another group, yesterday, someone posted that he couldn't find a
thread from a ways back with a particular keyword in the content -- in
that group (the one he was posting to and I was reading).

I popped the keyword and group into a GG search, and the hit came right
up -- a 2004 thread.

I did a TinyURL for that GG search and posted it for him.

Today I got a thank-you reply.

Upon getting that reply today, I checked again (more than once), and the
*only* hits the same two criteria (word and group) produced were the
four in the current discussion about his not being able to find the
earlier one himself.

Are there any other USENET archives that come close to what Google
used to be?

I've never seen one that didn't have some combination of these
shortcomings: short retention, relatively few groups, no search
function, stone age UI, broken, not accessable.


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Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
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