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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
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Subject: Re: Are these the only 3 known updated Usenet archives left?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 15:58:56 -0000 (UTC)
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> I'm curious whether the HTTP source mentioned supports range-requests,
> and whether HEAD for those resources results also the size, with
> regards to making a HEAD request to get the size then making a plan
> to download these files which would be expected to be constant now
> in batches of range-requests and so on.
> 
> It would be very much and greatly appreciated if these are indeed
> archives of pretty much all text usenet since the land before time.
> 
> About how to search these is you break them out into whatever then
> makes for a summary of these files, like a pyramidal sort of
> organization, then as with regards generating summary which these
> days seems the "inverse-document-frequency" pattern as much as
> otherwise summary and links to document IDs, to, search or query
> for documents of a kind and result message-ID's their relevant
> documents, or "hits".
> 
> If these are really the thing for something like "Archive Any and
> All Text Usenet" it would be pretty great with regards to these,
> and some of the other Internet Archive and other archives mentioned
> over the past few months as after Google quit Usenet (one imagines
> it was a bit too interesting to its latest/greatest knowledge gobble).
> 
> Well then warm regards and I shall so hope that such a resource,
> as this portends to be, finds a good and fair usage. If so, good show.

Unfortunately I don't understand a word you said but I will assume others
who are Usenet aficionados understood. 

This is my assessment of the 4 known web-based no-login Usenet archive
search and retrieval mechanisms which require no special Usenet skills.

1. Nova (works the best for new messages posted after 22Feb24)
   <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=name.of.newsgroup>

2. Google Groups (works the best for old messages prior to 22Feb24)
   <https://groups.google.com/g/name.of.newsgroup> 

3. CMacLeod (too many button clicks to be useful)
   <https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/name.of.newsgroup>

4. Narkive (nice site by a nice guy but fails too often to be useful)
   <https://name.of.newsgroup.narkive.com/>