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Usenet archive independent of Google at https://www.usenetarchives.com/ https://www.usenetarchives.com/ Their stats from https://www.usenetarchives.com/stats.p

Usenet archive independent of Google at https://www.usenetarchives.com/ https://www.usenetarchives.com/ Their stats from https://www.usenetarchives.com/stats.php https://www.usenetarchives.com/stats.php: Documents / Posts: 16,032,489 Average Document: 3.71 KB Storage Size: 56.76 GB (7.75%) Stats Collected: Mar 16, 2021, 17:34 EST The article says that Google had archived 700 million posts.

escape_goat 6y ago
That archive appears to be in the middle of a database migration, so it's possible that this deficiency is temporary. It is (as of last report) actually a single-developer project that just launched in January, apparently with enough pull to get a shout-out from VICE's "Motherboard". The current privacy policy reserves the right do basically whatever they want with your usage data.
- WalterGR 6y ago
  That archive appears to be in the middle of a database migration, so it's possible that this deficiency is temporary. Ah, I guess as of ~6 months ago the archive weighed in at 300 GB and 300 million posts, so hopefully temporary: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/in6u06/free_usenet_text_archive_goes_online_300_million/ https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/in6u06/free_usenet_... as of last report Where does one find the reports? Here are the creator's posts to Reddit, at least: https://www.reddit.com/user/emolinare/submitted/ https://www.reddit.com/user/emolinare/submitted/
  - escape_goat 6y ago
    I'm not referring to a set of specific reports, but rather, to what has been written ('reported') about the service. The most recent information I had attributed it to a single developer. Since he does not name himself outright on the website and may in fact have collaborators I neither named him nor assumed that this information was still current.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
At that size, it is feasible to download to a laptop computer. If it was made available for download, it would greatly increase the odds of it surviving as there would not be a single point of failure.
- WalterGR 6y ago
  Cursory googling suggests that there’s no single, kind of ‘master’ backup available. What seems to be downloadable are various (apparently thousands of separate) archives from Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenet https://archive.org/details/usenet and https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical It would take a ton of work to combine them for sure, but I absolutely agree it’s important.
  - mattowen_uk 6y ago
    Every message should have in it's header: 1. A unique message ID 2. The ID of the parent message 3. The group it was posted to 4. The subject line 5. The authors email and name 6. the date/time of posting So rebuilding a single repository of linked messages is TOTALLY do-able, and mostly programmatically to boot.

escape_goat 6y ago

That archive appears to be in the middle of a database migration, so it's possible that this deficiency is temporary. It is (as of last report) actually a single-developer project that just launched in January, apparently with enough pull to get a shout-out from VICE's "Motherboard". The current privacy policy reserves the right do basically whatever they want with your usage data.

WalterGR 6y ago
That archive appears to be in the middle of a database migration, so it's possible that this deficiency is temporary. Ah, I guess as of ~6 months ago the archive weighed in at 300 GB and 300 million posts, so hopefully temporary: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/in6u06/free_usenet_text_archive_goes_online_300_million/ https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/in6u06/free_usenet_... as of last report Where does one find the reports? Here are the creator's posts to Reddit, at least: https://www.reddit.com/user/emolinare/submitted/ https://www.reddit.com/user/emolinare/submitted/
- escape_goat 6y ago
  I'm not referring to a set of specific reports, but rather, to what has been written ('reported') about the service. The most recent information I had attributed it to a single developer. Since he does not name himself outright on the website and may in fact have collaborators I neither named him nor assumed that this information was still current.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago

At that size, it is feasible to download to a laptop computer. If it was made available for download, it would greatly increase the odds of it surviving as there would not be a single point of failure.

WalterGR 6y ago
Cursory googling suggests that there’s no single, kind of ‘master’ backup available. What seems to be downloadable are various (apparently thousands of separate) archives from Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenet https://archive.org/details/usenet and https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical It would take a ton of work to combine them for sure, but I absolutely agree it’s important.
- mattowen_uk 6y ago
  Every message should have in it's header: 1. A unique message ID 2. The ID of the parent message 3. The group it was posted to 4. The subject line 5. The authors email and name 6. the date/time of posting So rebuilding a single repository of linked messages is TOTALLY do-able, and mostly programmatically to boot.