12 Feb
2001
12 Feb
'01
6:33 a.m.
OK, what on earth happened to the Dejanews archive? Seems like they've been
taken over by Google (leading us one step closer to a single corporation
controlling the entire world, no doubt! :-)
I didn't see any advance warning of this, nor can I see any date for when
the archives will be back online on the site. Are there any other usenet
archive sites out there? (preferably ones that aren't web based, or have a
better interface than the awful Dejanews one - or the even poorer Google
search result format!)
cheers
Jules.
ps. this is serving somewhat as a test message - someone let me know if they
can see it! :)
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12 Feb
12 Feb
10:08 a.m.
OK, what on earth happened to the Dejanews archive?
Seems like they've been
taken over by Google (leading us one step closer to a single corporation
controlling the entire world, no doubt! :-)
Oh, great. An already bad weekend ends up even worse. Now the
www.deja.com/=dnc/ trick no longer works, at least it isn't as advertising
heavy as standard DejaNews had become.
Now the question is, how far does the archive go back now?
For real fun, try view thread..... :^( Still it does seem to be fast.
Zane
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10:22 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:08:11PM -0800, Zane H. Healy (healyzh(a)aracnet.com) wrote:
*Right this moment*, six months.
Once Google gets the infrastructure put together (it's apparently not
done, the six months is very much a make-do), all the way back to '95.
I'm reserving judgment until they get a chance to actually write the
front-end. (They couldn't use Deja's, which was for NT.)
-Rich
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OK, what on
earth happened to the Dejanews archive? Seems like they've been
taken over by Google (leading us one step closer to a single corporation
controlling the entire world, no doubt! :-)
Oh, great. An already bad weekend ends up even worse. Now the
www.deja.com/=dnc/ trick no longer works, at least it isn't as advertising
heavy as standard DejaNews had become.
Now the question is, how far does the archive go back now?
11:22 a.m.
Once Google gets the infrastructure put together
(it's apparently not
done, the six months is very much a make-do), all the way back to '95.
Oh, bleep! I hope they hurry up and get more of it online FAST!
I'm reserving judgment until they get a chance to
actually write the
front-end. (They couldn't use Deja's, which was for NT.)
It was NT?!?!? That explains a lot. I think I agree about reserving
judgement for the time being.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
10:25 a.m.
At 01:08 PM 2/12/01 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Oh, great. An already bad weekend ends up even worse.
Now the
www.deja.com/=dnc/ trick no longer works, at least it isn't as advertising
heavy as standard DejaNews had become.
Given Google's success and roots, I'd say this is a good
thing. I bet a doughnut they extend the archives deeper
into the past.
- John
11 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:25:16PM -0600, John Foust (jfoust(a)threedee.com) wrote:
At 01:08 PM 2/12/01 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
They've promised exactly that; they bought the whole thing, and
<URL:http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html> notes
that they're bringing the whole thing online, in the first couple of
paragraphs. Indexing a few terabytes of data seems an excusable reason
to not have it ready right away :-)
-Rich
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------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services
Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625
------------------------- rich(a)alcor.concordia.ca ----------------------
Oh, great. An already bad weekend ends up even
worse. Now the
www.deja.com/=dnc/ trick no longer works, at least it isn't as advertising
heavy as standard DejaNews had become.
Given Google's success and roots, I'd say this is a good
thing. I bet a doughnut they extend the archives deeper
into the past. 
11:03 a.m.
OK, what on
earth happened to the Dejanews archive? Seems like they've been
taken over by Google (leading us one step closer to a single corporation
controlling the entire world, no doubt! :-)
Oh, great. An already bad weekend ends up even worse. Now the
www.deja.com/=dnc/ trick no longer works, at least it isn't as advertising
heavy as standard DejaNews had become.
Now the question is, how far does the archive go back now?
For real fun, try view thread..... :^( Still it does seem to be fast.
4:21 p.m.
Julian Richardson skrev:
OK, what on earth happened to the Dejanews archive?
Seems like they've been
taken over by Google (leading us one step closer to a single corporation
controlling the entire world, no doubt! :-)
At least that's a step in the right direction. Google are actually providing a
good, clean service, whereas the big players such as Altavista and Deja(News)
have turned into Yahoo-esque media conglomerates offering everything but a
search engine. Perhaps will this mean that one won't have to wade through
tonnes of ads and unasked for services on Deja in the future?
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