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Usenet archives and article collections

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Archive websites

This lists sites on the Web which offer some sort of browsing or search functionality on Usenet articles.

• Google Groups — by far the biggest public archive of text newsgroups, with extensive search options.
• NNTP2HTTP — hierarchies at/de/es/fr/it/nl/pl/uk since June 2003, also several article collections donated by individuals. Full text search, author profiles, RSS feeds.
• Archivum.info — has stored articles from various international newsgroups since August 2005. Does not show original messages.
• GATAGO.com — text group articles for major hierarchies. Claims to have about 23 million unique articles as of October 2006, so it probably has started archiving not too long before that. Offers author profiles. Uses Google site search to provide full text search. Shows original messages after the visitor identifies the text in a captcha image.
• NNSeek — text group articles starting July 2006. Offers full text search which can be restricted to certain groups. Site became publicly accessible on September 22nd, 2006.
• Usenet article lookup by message ID — scope of underlying archive unknown, provided by Howard Knight.
• http://www.mailarchive.ca/ — a number of selected English language groups, archived since May 2003.
• Newsarchiv news.tu-graz.ac.at — an archive for tu-graz.* starting August 2001.
• comp.compilers — archive for the compiler newsgroup, goes back to 1986.
• Gopher: Usenet A News articles from 1981 and 1982.

Another list of archives can be found as part of the Yahoo! directory: Usenet archives.

Article collections

This section lists websites and FTP servers providing article collections, mostly text files (mbox format or something similar) with articles from a certain period of time for a certain group or hierarchy.

• b.j.t.-Archiv Articles from 1999 to 8/2004 from the regional newsgroup bln.jugend.talk (Berlin, Germany). One ZIP file with one mbox file per month. [German]
• comp.lang.beta 1994–2001, data as archives per FTP.
• comp.lang.smalltalk 1/1999–4/2001. One ZIP file with a single message text file per week. Does not contain full headers, just Newsgroups:/Subject:/From:/Date:. [English]
• de.alt.fan.harry-potter — all articles since the group's creation in 2003 as zipped mbox files, one per month. [German]
• de.alt.talk.dunkle-seite mbox files, compressed with bzip2 2003, 2004 [German]
• fj.* Various groups from the Japanese-language fj hierarchy, going back to 1987. For each newsgroup, one gzipped tar file with the group directory. The directory contains one article per file, the file names being integer numbers, just like a news spool direcory. [Japanese]
• hping news archives — gzipped mbox files of comp.lang.tcl / comp.lang.python / comp.security.firewalls / sci.crypt.gz since 2005.
• rgcd - an archive of the Doom newsgroups all rec.games.computer.doom.editing articles of 1999.