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Is there still a good way to browse Usenet archives? When Google bought Dejanews, it made a big thing of how you could go right back to the moments in history -

by 0898 12y ago

Is there still a good way to browse Usenet archives? When Google bought Dejanews, it made a big thing of how you could go right back to the moments in history - the first smiley, the first mention of Madonna etc. Now Google Groups seems to make historical Usenet really hard to browse - hiding the email addresses and trying to bounce you to modern groups. Or am I missing something?

dmckeon 12y ago
Point your NNTP client at: nntp.olduse.net or one of those new-fangled "Web" browser things at: http://olduse.net/ http://olduse.net/ olduse.net is not an archive, as such, but more of a repeat performance - "updated in real time as it was thirty years ago" - the bang!path email addresses are not hidden, and work-arounds to the "line eater bug" abound. The Google archive at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!browse https://groups.google.com/forum/#!browse seems useful to me, with, for instance, with 400+ results for "The Devouring Fungus". The Google interface has a "Show Original" function under the "More messages actions" pulldown, and a "Show unmasked email addresses" function behind a Captcha. Perhaps I'm missing something?