Take a look here: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical "This historical collection of Usenet spans more t

Take a look here: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical "This historical collection of Usenet spans more than 30 years and was given to us by a generous donor" This group for example, from that collection: https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp/comp.emacs.mbox.zip [69.8M] includes posts spanning from December 1988 to June 2013. For some reason the mbox files have an odd format, with From lines that look like: From -8118066241627336028 I wrote some scripts to fix that so I could open the mbox files in Mutt. BTW, found the above links on this page: http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_and_archiving.html http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_... which has more info & links about historical usenet archives.