[ih] net news

[Miles Fidelman]

Paging the Internet Archives!!! Perhaps time to collect the files from 
Google?

Miles

Miles

Dave McGuire via Internet-history wrote:
> On 2/23/26 19:13, Greg Skinner via Internet-history wrote:
>>> Does anyone know whether the netnews files are available anywhere?
>>
>> Usenet news posts are available through Google Groups.  For example, 
>> comp.protocols.tcp-ip, which was gatewayed from the tcp-ip list, is 
>> available at https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.tcp-ip.
>
>   Old articles are, but no new ones.  Google Groups has stopped all 
> Usenet activity and switched everything on their servers to read-only 
> almost exactly two years ago. (yesterday)  They did that due to 
> pressure from the rest of Usenet for their inability to control their 
> spam.
>
>   As far as new activity, there are several services that provide 
> access and feeds.  We have a Usenet feed at LSSM for our staff.
>
>                -Dave
>


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