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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Quantity and addresses of antique Usenet peers that carry full
 text feeds?
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 01:03:03 +0200
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On 3/28/2024 8:11 PM, SugarBug wrote:
> I wonder how many peers are carrying and preserving fulltext historical and curent Usenet feeds.
> 
> Will anyone give a ballpark number?
> 
> Which peers have articles remotest in antiquity?
> 
> Even guesstimates might be useful.
> 

The question is how much of that really is useful, considering the flood 
of spam the last few decades.