XPost: alt.comp.freeware   
   From: not@all.invalid   
      
   "Grant Taylor" wrote:   
   > The Internet Archive / archive.org hasn't actually /archived/ /Usenet/.   
   > Various people have uploaded archives of part of Usenet.  There is a   
   > significant difference.   
      
   I know, and they likely don't have the resources (or motivation) to   
   turn them into something useful.   
      
   > Sounds like an actual Usenet News Service Provider might be a viable   
   > candidate.  ;-)   
      
   I thought that as I sent the post! Some NSPs have very long retention   
   but they'd need to never expire articles. They'd also need to provide   
   an interface other than NNTP, as it's not practical for individual   
   news clients to download millions of headers for searching.   
      
   I forgot to mention Howard Knight. He provides web access to single   
   articles (truncated if over a certain length) if you have the MID,   
   and is completely up to date. I suspect it's a front end to a normal   
   newsfeed so I don't know about full retention (it's fairly long). He   
   was going to close it but people wrote in and he kept it going.   
      
      
   > I'm not at liberty to go into details, but suffice it to say I completely   
   > agree with you.   
      
   I understand. Losing a service is one thing but to destroy an archive   
   is something else.   
      
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