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Cursory googling suggests that there’s no single, kind of ‘master’ backup available. What seems to be downloadable are various (apparently thousands of separat

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.