2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

Re:2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone... by CarelessExpert on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:08PM (#24771807)

I just want to say thank you to you and everyone involved! I ran a little mini project a while ago to archive my old Usenet posts by using puppeteer to scrape the content from Google groups, knowing full well that they could shut it down by fiat any time.

I've frankly never trusted them as a steward for this and I'm glad to see someone stepping in.

Do you have any plans to team up with the Internet Archive on this?

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Re:2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone... by jozefjarosciak on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:22PM (#24772809)

Once I have everything in DB format, I'll certainly attempt to post it there.

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Re:2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:42PM (#24784687)

Please get in touch with [email protected] (Internet Archive Patron Services) when you’re ready. They will assist you with uploading the corpus to the archive (item creation, collection creation and assignment, metadata hygiene, etc). Thank you for your efforts!

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Re:2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone... by codetrotter on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:40AM (#24774830)

Excellent! Btw, in the DB format the posts are still uncensored or?

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