24 Jan
2016
24 Jan
'16
2:19 p.m.
Google seems to have folded the Usenet archives into its "Google Groups"
service. Here links to some relevant groups:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/net.unix
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/mod.unix
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.unix
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.unix.bsd
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.unix.sys5.r4
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.unix.i386
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.unix.programmer
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.unix.wizards
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/net.sources
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/mod.sources
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.sources.unix
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.sources.misc
The articles go way back. Here is for example Keith Bostic posting a
public domain getopt(3) implementation in mod.sources in 1984.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/mod.sources/2FNKQgL81d0
The browsing interface is an insult to Usenet News (threads are now
"topics", messages are "posts"), the web, and accessibility (topics
magically appear at the bottom of the page as you scroll down). I also
haven't been able to search by message-id. However, all the material
seems to be there, and with some effort you can even get it in the
original raw form. Here is Dennis Ritchie's famous "Noalias must go"
message.
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.c/K0Cz2s9il3E/YDy…
On 24/01/2016 09:06, 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.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 01:56:28PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Hi all, does anybody know of on-line historical Usenet archives that
> I can link to, especially if they have unpacked articles (visible
> subject lines would be better)?
>
> What newsgroups are relevant? net.v7bugs, comp.sources.unix,
> comp.sources.misc, net.sources, mod.sources, comp.sources.bugs?
> What about platform or system-specific newsgroups?