From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 18:22:06 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: <990f91e8-01c0-cf25-4889-43e1580398ef@kilonet.net> References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180508163643.GA16384@mcvoy.com> <201805081706.w48H62gd027214@freefriends.org> <1525802016.2020176.1365125208.2706032F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <990f91e8-01c0-cf25-4889-43e1580398ef@kilonet.net> Message-ID: My father was the sysadmin for Deja News at the time they were bought by Google. I was told that the "buyout" consisted of some Google folks showing up with a rack of drives, dumping all of Deja News's data over a weekend, and then flying back out to Mountain View. -Henry On 8 May 2018 at 15:11, Arthur Krewat wrote: > On 5/8/2018 3:00 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >> The problem is, many of us have stopped using it for whatever reason, and >>> certainly don't store/forward much. >>> >>> Maybe it's time to take it back and get back to the original intention >>> of USENET. >>> >> >> So where on Earth does one get an NNTP feed from these days? Lord knows >> I've tried. An no, I'm not talking about a pay-for-access NNRP host that I >> have to pull things from. >> >> That was going to be my next question ;) - Google has the entire archive > (minus binaries), and most commercial places have it going back only 3000 > days or so. > > Where's Deja News when you need 'em. > > > ak > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: