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    From John H. Reinhardt@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 16 16:08:07 2024
    Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts from USEnet? I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete any messages" and the two sources I have
    - Eternal-September and news.individual.net only store the last few years worth. I tried getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad article number"

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    John H. Reinhardt

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  • From John H. Reinhardt@21:1/5 to Ken Robinson on Sat Nov 16 16:32:41 2024
    On 11/16/2024 4:18 PM, Ken Robinson wrote:
    I have archives of the Info-VAX mailing list going back to December 2008. See if you can see them at https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-vax_rbnsn.com/ <https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-vax_rbnsn.com/>

    Ken

    Hi Ken. I get the page but it ask for a logon id and password. Do I need to request an account?

    Thanks!

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    John H. Reinhardt

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Sat Nov 16 19:14:42 2024
    On 11/16/2024 5:08 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
    Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts
    from USEnet?  I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently
    does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete
    any messages" and the two sources I have - Eternal-September and news.individual.net only store the last few years worth.  I tried
    getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad article number"

    I have a few links at the bottom of:
    https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/forums.html

    Google was both the most complete and the best searchable.

    :-(

    Arne

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  • From Stephen Hoffman@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Sat Nov 16 19:29:47 2024
    On 2024-11-16 22:08:07 +0000, John H. Reinhardt said:

    Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts
    from USEnet? I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently
    does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete
    any messages" and the two sources I have - Eternal-September and news.individual.net only store the last few years worth. I tried
    getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad article number"


    News server providers may or may not have much depth in their local
    newsgroup archives.

    For deeper archives:

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/usenet-archive-utzoo-online/

    https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.os.vms&y=0&r=0&p=1

    https://www.usenetarchives.com/stats.php

    The Usenet Archive has been working on improving their search capabilities.


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    Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Sat Nov 16 19:16:21 2024
    On 11/16/2024 5:32 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
    On 11/16/2024 4:18 PM, Ken Robinson wrote:
    I have archives of the Info-VAX mailing list going back to December
    2008. See if you can see them at https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/
    info-vax_rbnsn.com/ <https://rbnsn.com/mailman/private/info-
    vax_rbnsn.com/>

    Hi Ken.  I get the page but it ask for a logon id and password.  Do I
    need to request an account?

    I suspect that the public has to use:
    http://rbnsn.com/pipermail/info-vax_rbnsn.com/

    Arne

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Sat Nov 16 19:23:48 2024
    On 11/16/24 16:08, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
    I tried getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error
    occurred: Bad article number"

    If you'll give me more information on the article that you're looking
    for, newsgroup, poster or subject, and approximate date, I'll see if I
    have it on my private archive server.

    You can follow up here or email me directly if you'd rather not be public.



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    Grant. . . .

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  • From John H. Reinhardt@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Sat Nov 16 22:30:41 2024
    Thanks all. I was able to satisfy my needs due to your help and advise.

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    John H. ReinhardtOn 11/16/2024 4:08 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
    Other than Google, is there someplace to search or download older posts from USEnet?  I just found out the hard way that Thunderbird apparently does not keep past messages despite being configured to "Don't delete any messages" and the two sources I
    have - Eternal-September and news.individual.net only store the last few years worth.  I tried getting a message from 2022 and got "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad article number"


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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to arne@vajhoej.dk on Tue Feb 25 18:51:14 2025
    =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
    https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/forums.html

    Google was both the most complete and the best searchable.

    Sadly, though, Google had not been searchable for the last decade of it's
    life. All of the indices were screwed up and older messages were simply
    not possible to find except by message-id. It was shameful and nobody at Google cared.
    --scott
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    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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