archived articles available at usenetarchives.com date back to 1988

[Don]

A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
breadth and length, so to speak.

<https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>

But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
functionality.

Danke,

[Frank Slootweg]

Post by Don
A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
breadth and length, so to speak.
<https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>
But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
functionality.
Danke,

I see no way to get the complete article in source format, i.e.
including the headers, or at least some of the headers. Or am I missing
something obvious?

Also e-mail addresses (and other info?) in posts are heavily munged,
including in attribution lines, which makes them basically useless:

"***@c*.****.**c.uk writes:"

(third article in thread
<https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=news.software.nntp&mid=PDI1MUBqYW1lcy5jcy5iaGFtLmFjLnVrPg>)

[D]

Post by Frank Slootweg

Post by Don
A cursory glance indicates this site seems comprehensive, in both
breadth and length, so to speak.
<https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=news.software.nntp&y=0&r=0&p=1>
But you must bring your own search engine, because it offers no search
functionality.

I see no way to get the complete article in source format, i.e.
including the headers, or at least some of the headers. Or am I missing
something obvious?
Also e-mail addresses (and other info?) in posts are heavily munged,
(third article in thread
<https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=news.software.nntp&mid=PDI1MUBqYW1lcy5jcy5iaGFtLmFjLnVrPg>)

(using Tor Browser 13.0.7)
https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=news.software.nntp&mid=PDI1MUBqYW1lcy5jcy5iaGFtLmFjLnVrPg

Post by Frank Slootweg
Karl Kleinpaste
10/05/1988 22:31:45 UTC
Hah! Symbolic links are for WIMPS!!!!! :-)
Actually, they fit in really well with this bumper sticker that a
Better Living Through Complexity
And a common refrain around here is, "We have no shame - we use
symlinks."
:-)
What I did is put the nntp-ified inews in lib/inews and the genuine
2.11.14 inews in lib/local/inews. When I compiled nntpd I told it that
inews was in lib/local/inews.
What do you do about posting from the server machine? Did you compile
all your other news software so as to know that the real inews is in
lib/local/inews?
--Karl

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these webified usenet archive sites might be useful if they included
the option for viewing articles in their pristine raw message format;
but at least "usenetarchives.com" is read-only and could be improved