I used the old AltaVista desktop search engine, fed it the usenet data, and setup some proxies and mod_rewrite / Substitution strings and got it online that way

I used the old AltaVista desktop search engine, fed it the usenet data, and setup some proxies and mod_rewrite / Substitution strings and got it online that way. https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/02/25/personal-altavista-utzoo-reloaded/ https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/02/25/personal-altav... But it's a super great resource to have, a decade of usenet traffic, it's about 10GB uncompressed.