Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september)

Subject	Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
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From	DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
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Organization	blocknews - www.blocknews.net
Date	2021-07-06 15:32 -0400

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On 7/6/2021 3:11 PM, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 7/6/21 2:22 AM, David Brown wrote:
>> On 05/07/2021 23:13, Keith Thompson wrote:
> ...
>>> I just did a search on group.google.com for articles posted to
>>> comp.lang.c in 1998, and got 14,528 results:
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/search?q=after%3A1998-01-01%20before%3A1998-12-31
>>>
>>> A bit of browing leads me to suspect that the archive may be
>>> incomplete, but it definitely exists.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure it if was ever complete - did you (or anyone else) happen
>> to test it /before/ this nonsense?
> 
> I've been participating in Usenet newsgroups since the early 90's, and
> I've tried save copies of all of my posts. Sometimes I forgot, and
> sometimes I lost saved archives, but I still have 10's of thousands of
> messages saved. At one time, a decade or so ago, I did spot comparisons
> of my archive with Google's. For randomly chosen messages from my
> archive, about 80% were available in Google. For randomly chosen
> messages in Google's archives, about 90% were available in my archive.
> Those numbers rough guestimates from unreliable wetware memory - if I
> ever wrote my results down, I no longer remember where I saved them.


How are you saving your own posts?

I have various python code to pull posts off newsservers, if you're 
interested.

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comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2021-06-09 11:37 +0100
  Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2021-06-09 11:09 -0500
    Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 11:55 +0100
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 04:23 -0700
        Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 16:22 +0100
  Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 08:31 -0500
    Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 16:26 +0100
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2021-07-05 12:52 -0400
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 12:55 -0700
    Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 18:39 +0200
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 11:50 -0500
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups https://www.usenetarchives.com/ olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 11:56 -0500
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 14:13 -0700
        Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 15:32 -0700
          Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 15:34 -0700
        Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-07-06 08:22 +0200
          Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-07-06 15:11 -0400
            Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-06 15:32 -0400
              Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-06 19:56 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2021-07-13 04:37 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-13 16:45 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-13 17:44 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird MrSpud_0wmge0me@1luxp5mj4a5obrr0ws.net - 2021-07-14 07:17 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-14 15:07 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird MrSpud_6q@rm5.biz - 2021-07-14 16:03 +0000
                Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2021-07-14 19:08 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-07-14 21:11 +0200
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-14 20:02 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_0zkkxn6jj@uncf5cotva75ujdt.gov - 2021-07-15 08:27 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-15 14:20 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_6wa4@1h0c.net - 2021-07-15 14:34 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-15 14:59 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-07-15 08:29 -0700
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_8nnwe@ko9uz7rn4n552n6rutmfe.eu - 2021-07-16 09:33 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-16 15:33 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_Ccq3_3_r@atc_rakxp6.info - 2021-07-17 15:04 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-17 16:30 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_2fxg@cligh74ct.info - 2021-07-19 07:50 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-19 00:53 -0700
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_X19y3su@nl5uzoqa76.info - 2021-07-19 08:16 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-19 15:20 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_K_o53g2z@wl4yrs_t67fb214q.gov - 2021-07-19 15:31 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Manfred <invalid@add.invalid> - 2021-07-18 00:29 +0200
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) Kaz Kylheku <563-365-8930@kylheku.com> - 2021-07-14 20:11 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2021-07-14 21:03 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2021-07-16 12:55 +0200
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-07-14 20:32 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird) MrSpud_Cyt@em8kceu_4l_721dw4ed0wc.biz - 2021-07-15 08:24 +0000
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2021-07-16 19:59 +0300
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-17 09:45 -0400
                Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird steve <steve@loft.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> - 2021-07-17 22:11 -0400
              Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-07-06 16:25 -0400
    Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-05 17:00 +0000
      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-05 12:15 -0500

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