29 Jul
2020
29 Jul
'20
1:47 p.m.
P.S. I just downloaded (from the internet archive) and looked at the
comp.lang.forth archives and they seem to cover 2003 through 2014.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:42 PM Joseph S. Barrera III <joe at barrera.org>
wrote:
Right now it's (temporarily?) hidden, not deleted.
Hopefully it will be
restored. (I used to be a member of the Google Groups project.) Banned
groups aren't deleted for some number of weeks in case the ban was a
mistake.
There are also some backups at
https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp.lang
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:11 PM Dave via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I was looking for an old post on comp.lang.forth,
and was surprised to
discover that the group doesn't appear to be hosted on google groups any
more. Searching the group pulls up a "banned group" message, and selecting
the "continue to the group" button shows 0 messages in the group. This
appears to be due to spam showing up in the unmoderated group.
Google bought Dejanews years ago, and, as I understand, was the defacto
main usenet repository. Is is all really gone, or just temporarily
hidden? How long ago did this happen? Is the full comp.lang.forth archive
available anywhere?
I wonder if it's time to set up some NNTP mirrors and gather as much
historical usenet content as possible. Much of the overall content is
garbage, but there's some priceless stuff in there, and even more that will
become interesting in light of future developments.
Dave