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I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Since Google Groups stopped indexing new Usenet content a
while back, and search over its historical archive has always been
rough- I wanted something that treats this as a real research
archive -- full-text search, date-range/filtering,etc and most
importantly as much Usenet data as possible going back as far as I could
find.

The index currently holds (to date) roughly 980 million messages and is
still growing. Sources are archival backups, data donations, and ongoing
crawls of several thousand still-active public NNTP servers. Binary and yEnc-encoded content is stripped where possible to keep the index
focused on text.

The index was built using Apache Solr 10, MariaDB 12 (rocksdb), Ubuntu
22.04.5 LTS & custom Python scripts, all on nvme disk.

This is public archival content, same legal basis as DejaNews and
Google Groups before it. There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.
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Craig Stadler <cstadler18@hotmail.com> wrote or quoted:

There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.

What about some automatic removals for posts exhibiting header
lines such as:

X-No-Archive: Yes
Archive: no
X-No-Html: yes

?


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On 2026-09-06, Craig Stadler wrote:

I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Since Google Groups stopped indexing new Usenet content a
while back, and search over its historical archive has always been
rough- I wanted something that treats this as a real research
archive -- full-text search, date-range/filtering,etc and most
importantly as much Usenet data as possible going back as far as I could find.

The index currently holds (to date) roughly 980 million messages and is
still growing. Sources are archival backups, data donations, and ongoing crawls of several thousand still-active public NNTP servers. Binary and yEnc-encoded content is stripped where possible to keep the index
focused on text.

The index was built using Apache Solr 10, MariaDB 12 (rocksdb), Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS & custom Python scripts, all on nvme disk.

This is public archival content, same legal basis as DejaNews and
Google Groups before it. There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.

Can you consider setting a width and/or height for SVG icons for better compatibility? Or perhaps not use SVG icons at all?

I can get a paginated list of newsgroups, but they're not linkified, how
is this supposed to be used?
--
Nuno Silva
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Craig Stadler wrote:

this seemed like the one group that would actually care. https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Thanks for your efforts on this, I've only had a quick poke at it which
gave me results, I'll try it later ...

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Thank you! This is definitely a worthwhile service. I'll have to try it out.

On 9/5/26 23:12, Craig Stadler wrote:

I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Since Google Groups stopped indexing new Usenet content a
while back, and search over its historical archive has always been
rough- I wanted something that treats this as a real research
archive -- full-text search, date-range/filtering,etc and most
importantly as much Usenet data as possible going back as far as I could find.

The index currently holds (to date) roughly 980 million messages and is
still growing. Sources are archival backups, data donations, and ongoing crawls of several thousand still-active public NNTP servers. Binary and yEnc-encoded content is stripped where possible to keep the index
focused on text.

The index was built using Apache Solr 10, MariaDB 12 (rocksdb), Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS & custom Python scripts, all on nvme disk.

This is public archival content, same legal basis as DejaNews and
Google Groups before it. There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.

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On 9/5/26 23:12, Craig Stadler wrote:

I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Since Google Groups stopped indexing new Usenet content a
while back, and search over its historical archive has always been
rough- I wanted something that treats this as a real research
archive -- full-text search, date-range/filtering,etc and most
importantly as much Usenet data as possible going back as far as I could find.

The index currently holds (to date) roughly 980 million messages and is
still growing. Sources are archival backups, data donations, and ongoing crawls of several thousand still-active public NNTP servers. Binary and yEnc-encoded content is stripped where possible to keep the index
focused on text.

The index was built using Apache Solr 10, MariaDB 12 (rocksdb), Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS & custom Python scripts, all on nvme disk.

This is public archival content, same legal basis as DejaNews and
Google Groups before it. There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.

Too bad there isn't some way to get rid of the porn. Search for "cp-v"
(with the quotes) retrieves the following as the first hit:
VEB ** Submissive Daddy's Girl Whitney Does It All ** CP@V+
or else we need to know the rules for searches.
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:117ja57$26mtg$1@dont- email.me:

Can you consider setting a width and/or height for SVG icons for better compatibility? Or perhaps not use SVG icons at all?

I can get a paginated list of newsgroups, but they're not linkified, how
is this supposed to be used?

I fixed the SVG size issue (I think!) and also newsgroups are now clickable but it shows ALL messages inthat group sorted by oldest first. Let me know
if you had something else in mind, thanks for the feedback.

-Craig
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On 2026-09-06, Craig Stadler wrote:

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:117ja57$26mtg$1@dont- email.me:

Can you consider setting a width and/or height for SVG icons for better
compatibility? Or perhaps not use SVG icons at all?

I can get a paginated list of newsgroups, but they're not linkified, how
is this supposed to be used?

I fixed the SVG size issue (I think!) and also newsgroups are now clickable but it shows ALL messages inthat group sorted by oldest first. Let me know if you had something else in mind, thanks for the feedback.

Thanks, a (very) quick glance showed it is already much better than it
was on browsers which have the SVG size issue, and groups can be clicked
on! :-)

I'll try to have a longer glance at it when time allows.
--
Nuno Silva
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Craig Stadler <cstadler18@hotmail.com> wrote:

I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Thank you for this. I had a look at my old stomping grounds at rec.pets.dogs.behavior, and the first thing that came up in my
search was a response to someone who got taken in by the resident
newsgroup whackjob.

Good times, good times.
--
Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm ======================================================================== "Ironic that the two O's in 'cooperate' insisted on
having their own separate sounds...." -Nathan W. Pyle
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Craig Stadler <cstadler18@hotmail.com> writes:

I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

Since Google Groups stopped indexing new Usenet content a
while back, and search over its historical archive has always been
rough- I wanted something that treats this as a real research
archive -- full-text search, date-range/filtering,etc and most
importantly as much Usenet data as possible going back as far as I could find.

The index currently holds (to date) roughly 980 million messages and is
still growing. Sources are archival backups, data donations, and ongoing crawls of several thousand still-active public NNTP servers. Binary and yEnc-encoded content is stripped where possible to keep the index
focused on text.

The index was built using Apache Solr 10, MariaDB 12 (rocksdb), Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS & custom Python scripts, all on nvme disk.

This is public archival content, same legal basis as DejaNews and
Google Groups before it. There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.

Is there any way you can create a gopher equivalent to your site?

Any chance that you'll adopt a public API? I would consider writing a
feature to my finger service + a door on my bbs to interface with it.

--
Daniel
sysop | air & wave bbs
finger | info@bbs.airandwave.net
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