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[John H. Reinhardt]

Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts from USEnet? I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete any messages" and the two sources I have - Eternal-September and news.individual.net only store the last few years worth. I tried getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad article number"

[Ken Robinson]

I have archives of the Info-VAX mailing list going back to December 2008.
See if you can see them at
https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-vax_rbnsn.com/

Ken

[John H. Reinhardt]

I have archives of the Info-VAX mailing list going back to December 2008. See if you can see them at https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-vax_rbnsn.com/ <https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-vax_rbnsn.com/>
Ken

Hi Ken. I get the page but it ask for a logon id and password. Do I need to request an account?

Thanks!

[Arne Vajhøj]

Post by Ken Robinson
I have archives of the Info-VAX mailing list going back to December
2008. See if you can see them at https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/
info-vax_rbnsn.com/ <https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-
vax_rbnsn.com/>

Hi Ken.  I get the page but it ask for a logon id and password.  Do I
need to request an account?

I suspect that the public has to use:
http://rbnsn.com/pipermail/info-vax_rbnsn.com/

Arne

[Arne Vajhøj]

Post by John H. Reinhardt
Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts
from USEnet?  I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently
does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete
any messages" and the two sources I have - Eternal-September and
news.individual.net only store the last few years worth.  I tried
getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad
article number"

I have a few links at the bottom of:
https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/forums.html

Google was both the most complete and the best searchable.

:-(

Arne

[Stephen Hoffman]

Post by John H. Reinhardt
Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts
from USEnet? I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently
does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete
any messages" and the two sources I have - Eternal-September and
news.individual.net only store the last few years worth. I tried
getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad
article number"

News server providers may or may not have much depth in their local
newsgroup archives.

For deeper archives:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/usenet-archive-utzoo-online/

https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.os.vms&y=0&r=0&p=1

https://www.usenetarchives.com/stats.php

The Usenet Archive has been working on improving their search capabilities.

[Grant Taylor]

Post by John H. Reinhardt
I tried getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error
occurred: Bad article number"

If you'll give me more information on the article that you're looking
for, newsgroup, poster or subject, and approximate date, I'll see if I
have it on my private archive server.

You can follow up here or email me directly if you'd rather not be public.

[John H. Reinhardt]

Thanks all. I was able to satisfy my needs due to your help and advise.