[ih] net news

[Kevin Bowling]

On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 6:53 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 08/05/2026 09:48, Sivasubramanian M via Internet-history wrote:
> > If you need help in figuring out how to backfill everything, may be
> > archives.org could help, if they receive a nice request.
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> FWIW:
> https://archive.org/details/usenet

The quality of this versus just reading from the commercial providers
John Levine mentioned doesn't look favorable.  So that covers 2003+.
But as Ofer states, 2003+ usenet is perhaps less valuable than pre
2000s usenet.  I still can't think of a better option than spidering
Google to get all that, and it will have to be done somewhat
circumspect to avoid getting blocked.  Ideally someone could liberate
the data from Google but they've not been cooperative in any way
lately, their service basically killed the remaining text feeds when
they decided not to use their own spam and bot prevention code and let
Google Groups fester for two years before finally turning off write
access.  I'm open to actionable ideas and people with influence on the
situation.

> Kindest regards,
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> Olivier
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