Gemini Usenet Newsgroup

[Anna “CyberTailor”]

On 2021-10-27 18:35, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
> I'm interested in discussion groups, source code groups, and the like. 
> (Basically everything except binary groups.)

https://www.eternal-september.org/

> DejaNews was a good service and Google Groups is OK.  It's unfortunate 
> they don't have an NNTP interface.  On the other hand it's fantastic 
> when I want to find a thread I remember from a long time ago.

Google Groups is in my killfile. Find out how to block it there:
=> http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/filters_bg.html

> [1] My project is that I'm assembling an archive of Usenet to host it 
> publicly as a free (libre friendly) service.  In particular I'm missing 
> a few years in the 1990's, which ironically just so happen to be the 
> years I was most active.  Usenet is a treasure trove for history and 
> education.  For example, reading comp.lang.c while I was an 
> undergraduate student was critical in my understanding of the finer 
> points of the language.

Doesn't archive.org have Usenet archive?