On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:05 -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
3) Is anyone else archiving usenet or do Google
have sole control?
There's no "control" involved, just the problem of cost. Google
doesn't have a
monopoly on archiving usenet; they're just the only ones with infrastructure
and cash to do it.
Yep, but as I understand it deja spent a lot of effort collecting
together a complete usenet archive, which was then sold to google.
So whilst the data's not copyrighted, far as I know google are the only
people out there with a (reasonably?) complete usenet archive.
Now google seem to be doing everything they can to turn it into just
another web forum, which is a little alarming to me as it seems too
important a resource for that to happen to it. Hence I'm just curious as
to whether anyone else has managed to collect an archive together with
the emphasis being on the historical value of it, rather than it
apparently just being another way of scoring points against the
competition (and having a cruddy web interface bolted on top of it)
cheers
Jules