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Re: [NOISE] DejaNews all over again--a URL for Usenet Searching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Mon Nov 6 18:00:43 1995
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 17:43:32 -6
Reply-To: trei@process.com
> I usually avoid passing on URLs of interesting sites, in the name of
> conserving bandwidth (*), but this one really has me jazzed:
> http://dejanews.com/
> It allows searching of Usenet archives (a few months' worth, from what I
> can see).
Unfortunately, it does not archive alt, soc, talk, or *.binaries (the latter is
probably a blessing). Specialized news grepping is still useful - see
http://www.iii.net/users/trei/usenet.html for an example.
Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com
