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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 ther
by 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 agoCursory 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 agoEvery 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.