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The best-ever Usenet discussion vehicle was DejaNews - and Google killed it.

• pmiller2 14y ago
  I agree wholeheartedly. Is there anything even resembling a replacement now? I'm looking for long-term, searchable archives of widely carried groups (typically the rec.* hierarchy). I don't even care about the binaries groups. I just want to be able to search old posts and post with a relatively nice interface.
• mattchew 14y ago
  Mmmm. As I recall, DejaNews decided to reskin and become "Deja", along with making their service much stupider and more user hostile. Then, they died. I think there was a SaveDeja campaign for a while before Google finally bought the archive. I was not thrilled with what Google did with the archive after that--hugely disappointing, actually--but first the stupid and then the dying happened before Google touched anything.