| Take a look here: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical "This historical collection of Usenet spans more than 30 years and was given to us by a generous donor" This group for example, from that collection: https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp/comp.emacs.mbox.zip
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includes posts spanning from December 1988 to June 2013.For some reason the mbox files have an odd format, with From lines that look like: From -8118066241627336028
I wrote some scripts to fix that so I could open the mbox files in Mutt.BTW, found the above links on this page: http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_... which has more info & links about historical usenet archives. |