[TUHS] Re: [off-topic] Anyone still using USENET?

Hi Arnold, Very fond memories of trn(1). In comparison, I've never seen a web interface, e.g. for RSS reading, be so geared towards the user and his likely actions whilst also allowing for powerful expression. Bringing it back to heritage, I was wondering about Usenet the other day. Deja News was excellent, Google Groups is pitiful. A good search of a comprehensive, historic Usenet archive would be useful from the TUHS side, but I expect modern analysis means it would also be interesting to those wanting cultural analysis of a subset of the public in earlier decades. Henry Spencer's UTZOO archive is available. Sites like https://www.usenetarchives.com have used it in the past, but none I know of are well maintained. In part, anything popular would attract legal requests for posts to be taken down; IIRC that's why archive.org took down their official copy of UTZOO. But the data is so small by modern standards, perhaps a self-hosted searcher is a way forward. -- Cheers, Ralph.