On 2016-01-24 08:06, Larry McVoy wrote:
So there used to be dejanews or something like that,
it was awesome,
you could search it and find stuff from 1980. Google bought them
and more or less ruined it from what I can tell.
They dumped it to
archive.org in some mbox format.
https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
Mere grepping through it beats the monstrocity that is google groups.