Andrew Luke Nesbit via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> writes: > On a related note, I have an ongoing project to create an archive of > all Usenet posts from comp.lang.c and related groups, index them, and > make them properly accessible to the public. [...] > The biggest hole I have is the 1990's.
This seems to be a general problem with Usenet preservation -- the utzoo archives run up to 1991, and the collections from Giganews etc. on archive.org typically cover from 2000 or so onwards, but the 1990s are harder to obtain. Are there any public archives other than Google Groups for this period? (We've found quite a lot of useful information for the DB ITS project by mining relevant groups on Usenet -- a web interface isn't nearly as good for this as having the text on disk...) -- Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>