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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject: Re: USEnet Archives
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:14:42 -0500
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On 11/16/2024 5:08 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 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