From: Pete Turner <Pete_Tur...@BAKERBOTTS.COM>
Subject: Re[2]: Newsgroup Archives
Date: 1995/12/05
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I haven't been able to connect to DejaNews (it must be a busy site) or I would
be able to answer this myself. Do they skip "smut" like alt.binaries.sounds.midi
(and other newsgroups dedicated to sound files)? Thanks.
>Point your web browser to Dejanews at http://www.dejanews.com/ The site keeps
>archives of almost all the Usenet groups for 1 year (The skip all the "smut"
>i.e., alt.binaries....). They re-index their files every two (they say) to
>four days.
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <gb...@NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Newsgroup Archives
Date: 1995/12/05
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On Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:05:36 CST you wrote:
>I haven't been able to connect to DejaNews (it must be a busy site) or I would
>be able to answer this myself. Do they skip "smut" like
alt.binaries.sounds.midi
>(and other newsgroups dedicated to sound files)? Thanks.
>
>
>>Point your web browser to Dejanews at http://www.dejanews.com/ The site keeps
>>archives of almost all the Usenet groups for 1 year (The skip all the "smut"
>>i.e., alt.binaries....). They re-index their files every two (they say) to
>>four days.
Here is a stripped HTML portion of their help file
(http://www.dejanews.com/dnbig.html/).
Scope and size of DejaNews
DejaNews has the largest collection of indexed archived Usenet news available
anywhere. While WAIS servers typically contain only articles from a limited
number of newsgroups, DejaNews gives you access to most of the usenet postings
(articles posted to groups that match alt.*, soc.*, talk.* or *.binaries are
excluded) in the last month. This amounts to over 4Gbytes of
searchable data.
Selected groups have an extended history of up to a year. As resources
allow, we will plan to eventually offer an entire year of history on
all of the groups (except the excluded ones described above).
If you'd like to have the full-year history of your favorite group
available now, just send us email to gro...@dejanews.com and let us know.
We'll pull the last year's articles for that group off the archive
and add it to the database. Once it has been added, you'll get
an email confirmation that it's now available.
Gerry Boyd -- gb...@netcom.com
From: jo...@uclink2.berkeley.edu (John Angelico)
Subject: Searching Usenet...?
Date: 1995/12/14
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I read somewhere recently about a Web site which can search all of the
posts on Usenet for the past two months to find a person you're
looking for. You plug in their name and it'll spit back their email
address. Does anybody out there know what I'm talking about?
Thanks in advance. . .
John
From: hwitt...@linex.com (Howard Wittenberg)
Subject: Re: Searching Usenet...?
Date: 1995/12/14
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In article <4aqb94...@agate.berkeley.edu>, jo...@uclink2.berkeley.edu says...
>
>I read somewhere recently about a Web site which can search all of the
>posts on Usenet for the past two months
I think you are talking about DejaNews. It's a great search tool. Goes back
farther than 2-months the last time I checked. Check it out.
http://www.dejanews.com/
Howard
From: Larry Weiss <l...@oc.com>
Subject: Re: Searching Usenet...?
Date: 1995/12/15
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Howard Wittenberg wrote:
>
> In article <4aqb94...@agate.berkeley.edu>, jo...@uclink2.berkeley.edu says...
> >I read somewhere recently about a Web site which can search all of the
> >posts on Usenet for the past two months
>
> I think you are talking about DejaNews. It's a great search tool.
> Goes back farther than 2-months the last time I checked.
> Check it out.
>
> http://www.dejanews.com/
>
> Howar
http://www.dejanews.com/ doesn't see "all" the newsgroups, but
it does see a good number. In their words:
Scope and size of DejaNews
DejaNews has the largest collection of indexed archived Usenet
news available anywhere. While WAIS servers typically
contain only articles from a limited number of newsgroups,
DejaNews gives you access to most of the usenet postings
(articles posted to groups that match alt.*, soc.*, talk.* or
*.binaries are excluded) in the last month. This amounts to over
4Gbytes of searchable data.
Selected groups have an extended history of up to a year. As
resources allow, we will plan to eventually offer an entire year
of history on all of the groups (except the excluded ones
described above). If you'd like to have the full-year history of
your favorite group available now, just send us email to
gro...@dejanews.com and let us know. We'll pull the last
year's articles for that group off the archive and add it to the
database. Once it has been added, you'll get an email
confirmation that it's now available.
From: jo...@hydra.ims.com (John Roberts)
Subject: Archive for Usenet News???
Date: 1995/12/21
Message-ID: <4bd042$12v@hydra.ims.com>#1/1
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newsgroups: news.software.readers
Is the Usenet net news archived anywhere? Anywhere I can
ftp to?
I'd like to get back news articles of comp.arch (as well
as a few other newsgroups).
Is this possible?
Thanks!
John Roberts
jo...@ims.com
From: jles...@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie)
Subject: Re: Archive for Usenet News???
Date: 1995/12/22
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organization: Dynamic Matrix Control 713/313-5000
newsgroups: news.software.readers
John Roberts (jo...@hydra.ims.com) wrote:
: Is the Usenet net news archived anywhere? Anywhere I can
: ftp to?
:
: I'd like to get back news articles of comp.arch (as well
: as a few other newsgroups).
:
: Is this possible?
:
:
: Thanks!
Try this URL:
http://www.dejanews.com/
DejaNews Research Service - homepage
--Jerry,
Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie jles...@dmccorp.com gles...@isvsrv.enet.dec.com
Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation (my opinions are my own)
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