Re: Upgrading the news URL

[Andrew Pam <xanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edward Cherlin wrote:
> Someone should talk to DejaNews about this. They have archived most of
> Usenet since March, 1995, in searchable form. See http://www.dejanews.com/

Interesting - I knew that DejaNews had a significant archive of Usenet,
but I was not aware until now that they had committed to archiving all
of Usenet indefinitely.

> I expect we could come to some sort of arrangement with them once we had a
> transclusion syntax before the IETF.

Well, I have already done that part, but I think we need more than just
the transclusion syntax!  For one thing, DejaNews represents a potential
single point of failure.

Cheers,
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