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   Huge to RS Wood   
   Re: Old copy of Koran found in Birmingha   
   22 Jul 15 07:47:01   
   
   From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2015-07-22, RS Wood  wrote:   
      
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   > A bit of a side project: I'm visiting Usenet groups one by one,   
   > starting with some of the more obscure hierarchies, to see where the   
   > nuggets of gold are.  There are interesting volumes out there: many   
   > sites are high volume cesspools, but there are some low volume groups   
   > of good quality, too.  Given tens of thousands of newsgroups out there,   
   > it's interesting to poke around.  I'll publish the database if/when I   
   > ever finish it.   
      
   Assuming you live long enough!   
      
   huge@amun:~/Prog/News$ wc -l NIN_active.txt   
   24113 NIN_active.txt   
      
      
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