Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/20/13
8:14 AM, Richard wrote:
<http://www.eternal-september.org/> is a
free and open usenet server.
I've used them for my news feed for years, but I didn't see a search
anywhere.
I also use eternal september, but just for 5 newsgroups.
As an example, the number of posts JUST in November are:
comp.sys.dec 15 (1 cross posted) with 2055 (back to June 3,
2009) 779 KB
alt.sys.pdp11 4 (4 cross posted) with 528 (back to June
14, 2012) 222 KB
vmsnet.pdp-11 5 (4 cross posted) with 116 (back to June 17,
2012) 63 KB
The external september server may allow access to text ONLY
newsgroups, but I am not sure. Certainly, the storage requirements
are small, the combined total storage for the 3 examples is just over
1 MB.
There is at least one other server which I use as well - the retention
is a bit over 10% for the first 2 groups and almost identical for the
third group.
Jerome Fine