Dejanews - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Feb 2001

...
  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
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  to not have it ready right away :-) 
Deja didn't have the older archives available for a while now. Every time I
emailed their support service I got an automated reply back saying that it
was temporarily unavailable - I suppose that if this takeover was looming
then that explains a lot.

Oh, I don't know about them having the last 6 months up at the moment by the
way - yesterday afternoon they didn't have some of my posts and follow-ups
...
 from less than a week ago.  
Hopefully there'll be a way of grabbing group archives to local storage -
that'll be handy. I hope they put some serious work into the UI too and
actually make it look like a piece of newsreader software rather than a bad
web front-end (as dejanews was and as the site is currently)

cheers

Jules

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