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  • Fwd: archive.usenet.blueworldhosting.com - Over 45 years of Usenet history now available

    From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory on Thu Aug 20 11:47:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory




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    Subject: archive.usenet.blueworldhosting.com - Over 45 years of Usenet
    history now available
    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:32:06 -0000 (UTC)
    From: Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com>
    Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.software.nntp
    Followup-To: news.software.nntp

    I'm pleased to announce that the archive I've been working on for several
    years is finally as complete as it can be, and is ready for public
    consumption.

    The archive contains articles beginning in early 1981 and span to
    current day.
    It is far from complete, as I'm sure the source material was imperfect.

    There are over 1.1 billion articles consuming over 5 terabytes.

    Article numbering in this archive is in chronological order. Posting to the archive is not permitted.

    There is a period of time, roughly 1995-2000, where valid timestamps
    were not
    present. The dates are correct, but all timestamps are midnight UTC:

    Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0000

    The archive contains a lot of spam, but we're working on a filtered
    version of
    the archive.

    The news.blueworldhosting.com server that has been in existence will be
    retired in favor of the filtered archive, once it is available. A separate announcement for this will be made with a planned cutover and retirement
    date.

    The archive is available at archive.usenet.blueworldhosting.com via
    ports 119
    (clear text) and 563 (TLS).

    I will not make a 'web' version available. There are others who have
    taken on
    that endeavor, and they're free to use this archive.

    I encourage others to replicate the archive, but do not recommend attempting
    to pull/suck articles. This is a fruitless endeavor and will likely take a better part of a year to complete.

    If you have the storage space and knowledge of INN/Diablo I will gladly push the archive to you, or make the CNFS buffers, history, and overview
    databases
    available for download.

    It took over two weeks to feed the articles to this server from the 'repository' server I used to collect them using innxmit with near 0ms
    latency
    and a large SSD storage array.

    Cheers,

    Jesse Rehmer


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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc on Fri Aug 21 13:56:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 21/08/2026 2:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:



    -------- Forwarded Message --------
    Subject: archive.usenet.blueworldhosting.com - Over 45 years of Usenet history now available
    Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:32:06 -0000 (UTC)
    From: Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com>
    Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.software.nntp
    Followup-To: news.software.nntp

    This is indeed good news, thank you Ross.

    I keep forgetting to configure my news client to connect to this,
    because I've started to code my own C compiler in Rust.

    Adding comp.lang.c and comp.lang.misc for the two, in that order.

    I'll be sure to try to remember to connect to this archive later
    today, or at worst, during the weekend.


    Happy making your own C compiler in Rust!
    --
    Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
    I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
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