From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:44:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [NOISE] DejaNews all over again--a URL for Usenet Searching
Message-ID: <9511062238.AA04563@toad.com>
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> I usually avoid passing on URLs of interesting sites, in the name of
> conserving bandwidth (*), but this one really has me jazzed:
> http://dejanews.com/
> It allows searching of Usenet archives (a few months' worth, from what I
> can see).

Unfortunately, it does not archive alt, soc, talk,  or *.binaries (the latter is
probably a blessing). Specialized news grepping is still useful - see
http://www.iii.net/users/trei/usenet.html for an example.





Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team                                
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com