From: noreply@mixmin.net   
      
   On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:56:36 GMT, Colin Macleod  wrote:   
   >I've updated the software behind https://newsgrouper.org/ to a new version   
   >which I believe handles historical search much better.  However to do this   
   >I had to renumber all groups.  This has the unfortunate side effect that   
   >any groups you have previously read will now show all articles as new.   
   >This will correct itself once you go into a group and then back to the home   
   page.   
   >On a group page, clicking Search now takes you to a flat (non-threaded) list   
   >of posts.  You can then filter this list by Subject, Author and/or Date range.   
   >For some groups the available posts go back to the 1980s.   
      
   it really works great, better than any web-based interface with usenet   
   newsgroups   
   that i've ever used (since dejanews, and the early days of googlegroups before   
   it   
   started going haywire ever since their "beta" operation commenced circa   
   29nov2004,   
   after which g-groups only became increasingly unpredictable and de facto   
   unusable,   
   except for googlespam, which reminded the usenet world that the usenet troll   
   farm   
   has always utilized every available newsserver on earth to enforce the status   
   quo,   
   but finally this article <7e2a356c-8313-45c1-a12c-44bd4f0ba39cn@   
   ooglegroups.com>   
   posted to news:microsoft.public.security.virus 22 feb 2024 15:08:15 +0, was   
   their   
   swan song; they're still using all the other nntp servers of course, yet it's   
   not   
   upwards of 2gb per day but back down to ~1.5gb per month, a trickle by   
   comparison   
      
   the "message id" search is very handy, and "top twenty" list includes a   
   newsgroup   
   that i've been subscribed to since 1997 (as with any other busy newsgroup, it   
   too   
   has been under troll farm occupation for aeons, but some forums are still   
   useful)   
      
   https://newsgrouper.org/tops   
   >Top twenty groups most read here   
   >...   
   >alt.privacy.anon-server	Issues surrounding programs that aid anonymity.	1%   
   >https://newsgrouper.org/alt.privacy.anon-server   
      
   hopefully, newsgrouper.org will continue to be available for everyone looking   
   for   
   convenient access to usenet (especially since novabbs/i2pn2 rocksolid was   
   closed)   
   and the blueworld server has excellent article retention, going back two   
   decades   
      
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