[Steuard]

No apologies necessary: creating the archive in the first place was awesome! Like I said, this just shows how massive and complex Usenet is (or maybe, was), and how it's not easy at all to create a comprehensive archive. It's far better to have some of it than none of it!

[mailxplorer]

From what I can gather, I downloaded one tenth of Usenet - 11,000 groups. This means if I'd done all 110,000 groups it would have taken me about a year to download them, and an 8TB drive to store them (in 2013!). That wasn't really feasible...