At 5:49 PM 11/6/95, Peter Trei wrote:

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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.

excite Netsearch (http://www.excite.com/) indexes all or part of alt, soc, and talk groups. (I say "all or part" because I obviously cannot verify that it indexes all posts to these groups just by verifying that it indexes at least _some_ posts in these groups.) It even indexes the *.binaries.* groups, as I just learned. (Paul Robichaux told me about the http://www.excite.com/ URL.) --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."