From: "Kevin S. Van Horn" <vanhorn@hks.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 08:23:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: DejaNews all over again--a URL for Usenet Searching
Message-ID: <199511082054.PAA07132@bb.hks.net>
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tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
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>Paul Robichaux pointed me to another searcher, http://www.excite.com/,
>which _does_ index the alt groups. I'm sure more are coming, reaching
>further and further back in time.

A small point of information.  I work for Architext, the company that provides
the excite service.  We only keep the last two weeks of USENET news around,
and don't keep any archives going further back than that.  USENET is just too
damn huge for us to go to the trouble of keeping comprehensive archives around
without good evidence of demand for it among our target audience.

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