USEnet Archives

[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

[Scott Dorsey]

Post by Arne Vajhøj
https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/forums.html
Google was both the most complete and the best searchable.

Sadly, though, Google had not been searchable for the last decade of it's
life. All of the indices were screwed up and older messages were simply
not possible to find except by message-id. It was shameful and nobody at
Google cared.
--scott

[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.