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August 24th, 2009

Usenet is a great repository of data. Many users use it not only by downloading or providing binary data but also often the text is more important. This happens more often when you begin to perceive it as a useful tool in our work. Occurs the question of who can provide us with the archives of the newsgroups for a few years back. After a brief review of the market appears to be only one company: Giganews. Giganews gives us the possibility of using text resources on the Usenet, over 6 years ago-now it is exactly 2254 days. Competitors are far behind – the best can offer about 3 years text data retention.

This raises the question raised by Mariusz in one of the comments: What about the older data and how to access them?

Here is just Google, which bought the Usenet archives public since 1985, produced by Steve Madere under the name of Deja News, transformed it in Google Groups, and added the private archives back to 1981 years. If Giganews does not have interesting data and Google does not have them also it is very likely that you will not find them anywhere.

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