[throwing_away]

But does it include binaries?

[genewitch]

this is a valid - if cheeky - question. There is probably a fair amount of software lost to the sands of time that would be fun to discover on an old NNTP server.

[throwing_away]

Valid and cheeky is squarely where I'm aiming, so thank you ;)

[reddalo]

It's sad that the Usenet archive by Google doesn't have old binaries at all, and neither do all those "modern" services which are primarly used for piracy.

I wonder how much software has been lost forever.

[genewitch]

there are people like me that try to save everything forever, so less lost than would otherwise be assumed. Hopefully.