Re:Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference
by Steuard on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:03PM
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No apologies necessary: creating the archive in the first place was awesome! Like I said, this just shows how massive and complex Usenet is (or maybe, was), and how it's not easy at all to create a comprehensive archive. It's far better to have some of it than none of it!
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Re:Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference
by mailxplorer on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:10PM
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From what I can gather, I downloaded one tenth of Usenet - 11,000 groups. This means if I'd done all 110,000 groups it would have taken me about a year to download them, and an 8TB drive to store them (in 2013!). That wasn't really feasible...