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  • Re: R.I.P. Usenet (and RADW)

    From Blueshirt@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Mar 17 01:23:21 2024
    Daniel65 wrote:

    Your Name wrote on 20/12/23 4:12 pm:
    On 2023-12-20 04:22:11 +0000, Blueshirt said:

    Usenet Archives is another one,
    <https://www.usenetarchives.com>

    going back to March 1987 in rec.arts.drwho

    <https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=rec.arts.drwho&y=0&r=0&p=1>

    Read up through at least Page 50 of (supposedly) 10,170 pages,
    each containing 20 threads (so totaling 203,381 threads) ....
    although I think my first posts to this Newsgroup appear at
    about page 4,750 .... so a bit over 1% done!!

    1%? <gulp>

    I hope you live to be 107 years of age so you can
    complete your task of going through the RADW archives...

    Or read quicker!

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  • From Your Name@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Mar 17 08:57:20 2024
    On 2024-03-16 14:23:21 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Daniel65 wrote:
    Your Name wrote on 20/12/23 4:12 pm:
    On 2023-12-20 04:22:11 +0000, Blueshirt said:

    Usenet Archives is another one,
    <https://www.usenetarchives.com>

    going back to March 1987 in rec.arts.drwho

    <https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=rec.arts.drwho&y=0&r=0&p=1>

    Read up through at least Page 50 of (supposedly) 10,170 pages,
    each containing 20 threads (so totaling 203,381 threads) ....
    although I think my first posts to this Newsgroup appear at
    about page 4,750 .... so a bit over 1% done!!

    1%? <gulp>

    I hope you live to be 107 years of age so you can
    complete your task of going through the RADW archives...

    By then there will be a load more messages added from today onwards.


    Or read quicker!

    Or simply not bother reading them ... 99% of them will be pointless
    garbage and spam.


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