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Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
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SugarBug
2024-05-19 13:56:26 UTC
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Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863

I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

Narkive: https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/jqTCQePo/are-these-the-only-3-known-updated-usenet-archives-left#post12
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D
2024-05-19 21:00:42 UTC
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Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863
I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.
Narkive: https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/jqTCQePo/are-these-the-only-3-known-updated-usenet-archives-left#post12
Fascinating how little space text messages take. Only a few TBs for
decades of messages from all over the world!

When does the archive stop?

It sounds to me as a nice open source project. Try and gather all
messages, clean it up, and throw it online and make it searchable, while
updating it with current text only newsgroups.

On the other hand, someone else must have already thought of the idea, I'm
sure.
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2024-05-20 02:23:00 UTC
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On Sun, 19 May 2024 23:00:42 +0200, LO AND BEHOLD; D
<***@example.net> determined that the following was of great
importance to D <***@example.net> and subsequently decided to freely
share it with us in
<b8be6d7f-333f-11f1-8d71-***@example.net>:

=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Sun, 19 May 2024, SugarBug wrote:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Groups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863 I love treasure
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes,
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= then you know what I mean. Narkive:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/jqTCQePo/are-these-the-only-3-kn
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= own-updated-usenet-archives-left#post12
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Fascinating how little space text messages take. Only a few TBs for
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= decades of messages from all over the world!
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= When does the archive stop?
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= It sounds to me as a nice open source project. Try and gather all
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= messages, clean it up, and throw it online and make it searchable,
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= while updating it with current text only newsgroups.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On the other hand, someone else must have already thought of the idea,
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= I'm sure.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=

Just fucking download it, FFS. You twits spend all day downloading tenticle pr0n and shit, I'm sure you can manage archiving this locally without having it supplied to you by some corporation as a conduit to stuff advertising down your throat.
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"I think we should destroy every last fucking mosque in America." - "Checkmate, DoW #1" <***@The.Edge> proves for us that white males are violent in Message-ID: <***@news.altopia.com>

"Yeah, but you think everybody's Greg. There are a couple people here who can't resist responding to everything the aSSwurm or the Pussy Willow says. It does me no good to plonk aSSwurm and Pussy Willow if I still have to wade through a hundred inane posts a day involving those two assholes, so now I've plonked the chronic responders as well. They'll figure it out, and then they can make a choice... exchange stupid drivel with those two, or have more intelligent and interesting conversations with me. I know damned well Greg got sick of all that shit, and now I'm sick of it too. Those who choose to get led around by the lowest common denominator are fucking up AC and every other group they play that game in. If that's the kind of Usenet they want, they can wallow in the same slop as the two retards elsewhere, because they're only contributing to fucking this group up too. I can take or leave this shit, because I have plenty to keep me occupied with my room addition project, and it's a hell of a lot more rewarding than exchanging baby talk with the likes of the aSSwurm. May his fucking worthless AIDS-infested carcass drop fucking dead ASAP and quit wasting oxygen. To sum it up, talk to those two idiots elsewhere, or they'll probably be the only people left to talk to here." One can only presume that Jim and Creon/Vallor have solved this problem and are together in a private chat "having more intelligent and interesting conversations" instead of these "Civil" calls for shunning and authoritative control of discussion. As Seen on TV : <***@news.altopia.com>

"I'm pretty sure all gods are fictional, I'm smart enough to not proclaim I know this." - Kwills is only smart enough to doubt himself while arguing that a belief in imaginary made-up gods can't just be ignored as "mental illness" in <***@4ax.com>

"If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker." -James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet. <***@usnews.blocknews.net>

"Trying to diminish others doesn't make you look any better. In fact, it does quite the opposite. Why are you always so bitter and angry? Do you have AIDS or something like so many other tranny girls do?" -James "Checkmate" Gorman in <***@test.blocknews.net>

"You should see my archive on you" -James "Checkmate" Gorman teases us with his "dosser" in <***@usnews.blocknews.net>

"Sorry, nothing to see here. The joint wasn't as bad as they say, but I'm not looking to go back. I'm a model citizen, clean as a whistle. I've owned my own home for 12 years, owned my own business almost as long, don't bother anyone and they don't bother me. You have nothing in any "police report" pertaining to me. Don't you think they would have "come a-knockin" a long time ago if they had any reason to? You're delusional and paranoid, and I have to wonder why.

Oh... I should mention that there are a LOT of trannies in prison. I don't know why, but there are. The State even has to give them hormone shots for their tiddies at taxpayer's expense, and they wear bras and panties. I found everything about them revolting. That's why the whole "Bubba" thing is almost completely a myth, except in cell living. That shit wouldn't fly in a 100-man dorm, but trust me, those little trollops find ways to serve the willing when the lights go out. You see something, you keep your mouth shut about it because that way you don't get in a wreck. I never partook in such activities because the whole idea is just repulsive. I think that's a big part of what I don't like about you. I've seen how they act and I've talked to a few... total drama queens in every sense." -James "Checkmate" Gorman reminisces about prison in <***@usnews.blocknews.net>

"Not true. I've seen square waves on the oscilloscope from some certain generator. Square waves can be created from other than sine waves. Sine waves aren't everything (or anything you sick pervert %), I think that's the point you are missing. - Mathemagician "Lane Larson" in <939d6741-df96-5f2e-a444-***@stoat.inhoin.edu> seems to argue that square wave generators must use Fourier transforms "of course" to generate "almost" square waves... in his feeble attempt to quash my assertion that "square waves do not exist in reality" in post <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DKWuXdYTXCQ5ApC$@88.203.236.221=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>.

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Marco Moock
2024-05-22 10:20:07 UTC
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Post by SugarBug
I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old
thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store
with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and
ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.
It is everytime interesting to find out stuff there about people you
know, technology and other stuff.

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