[jozefjarosciak]

Hi Folks,

I have archives of comp.lang.c group going back 35 years (1986-2021) and when I saw this news I decided to prioritize this one and just started synchronizing it into my archive. In a couple of hours, you should be able to see all of the posts ever made to: comp.lang.c group over at my Usenet Archives:

Here it is, enjoy: https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.lang.c&y=0&r=...

BTW. I just reworked entire architecture of the site, which unfortunately also means I have to re-synchronize over 1 billion posts back into the archive. That will take some time, but anyways, just wanted to tell you that I prioritized this group. Enjoy!

[rsync]

"I just reworked entire architecture of the site, which unfortunately also means I have to re-synchronize over 1 billion posts back into the archive."

Thank you very much for creating and maintaining this archive.

I am not sure how big of a commitment I am making when I say this but we (rsync.net) would like to give you free service, forever, to back up this resource.

Please contact us if this would be useful.

[jozefjarosciak]

Wow, I overlooked this post. But you have me interested. I would like to talk more about the details of your offer. Please send me your contact info.

[throw0101a]

His weblog post on this work:

* https://www.joe0.com/2020/10/07/converting-utzoo-wiseman-net...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25036780

Interview with Henry Spencer, who a lot of these early archives came from (along with Wiseman, who extracted the tapes):

* https://www.giganews.com/usenet-history/spencer.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer

[vzaliva]

First of all, thank you for making this available. However without Search functionality the utility of this archive is very limited.

[zikzak]

Is Google indexing the content? Maybe you can search it that way.

[Godel_unicode]

"site:usenetarchives.com" has a bunch of results, so it seems so.

[jozefjarosciak]

Hello, and thanks for your words, much appreciated. As far as search capabilities, it's a bit tricky to create a fast search, when you have over billion posts full of text to search through. But I am working on putting together a text search within a specific group, which seems to be working pretty fast. I should have it completed in a week or two.

[nvr219]

Nowadays if the answer to my problem isn't in the first stack exchange answer in the first google result I just give up! Imagine having to post on usenet!