Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx14.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: The Internet Archive has received a Usenet data dump Organization: USS Voyager NCC-74656, Delta Quadrant X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) From: scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) Originator: scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) Lines: 18 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:23:58 UTC Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:23:58 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 1405 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2:48882 A recent post to comp.sys.raspberry-pi had this link: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical I've been told the whole thing works out to over 2 TB uncompressed, but comp.sys.apple2 and comp.sys.apple are only about 651 MB across two .mbox files. comp.sys.apple goes back to November 1986, but strangely has traffic all the way through to 2001. comp.sys.apple2 goes back to November 1992 (when it was supposed to take over from comp.sys.apple), but only has posts through mid-June 2013. Still, it should be a good start on a post-Google-Groups archive. Perhaps the gaps can be filled in with one of the longer-retention Usenet providers. -- _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( https://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?