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Archive.org has it all. It's not in a usable format, it's like tar dumps. But it's on there.

• sumtechguy 3y ago
  This is something archive really should put some resources towards. Its discoverability of items is really poor. Going thru archive to find things is like going to that one consignment shop where the owner bought all of the businesses around him going out of business for the past 30 years and he tossed it all in a warehouse. You know it is in there but finding anything is terrible.
  • immibis 3y ago
    If it's available for public download, then someone else can do it if they have the demand. I wouldn't ask archive.org to tie up their resources when they're already struggling with lawsuits.
  • qingcharles 3y ago
    I'm working on this for magazines. Gotta just pick a niche and go for it...
• ksherlock 3y ago
  The files are compressed mbox format. Anybody who used unix email in the 80s or 90s, before Maildir took over (rightly!) knows what that means, but it's a single text file with all your emails. (or usenet posts in this case). I've downloaded a few newsgroups that I care about so I can search offline since Google usenet search is not very good. It is a shame and a huge missed opportunity that archive.org doesn't have a usable usenet browser/searching. I would build it for free. Heck, I would pay them (well, I do donate).
• iggldiggl 3y ago
  Sort of – for the one newsgroup I'm interested in (uk.railway), the Giganews archive only seems to go back to the early 2000s – whereas I know that Google had posts going back into the 90s, but sadly it's one of the groups where access was blocked on account of "too much spam" (probably facilitated by Google Groups in the first place).