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