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	5 --[ A ready to read archive of old gopher Usenet groups
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	8 So, I recently got back into Usenet and thought it would be cool to
	9 browse through old historical posts, especially the ones in the old
	10 gopher groups. You can actually find a bunch of collections dating as
	11 far back as 1981 on archive.org. They've got the Giganews Usenet
	12 Collection, Usenet Historical Collection, and Henry Spencer's UTZOO
	13 NetNews Archive. Although the UTZO Wiseman Archive is no longer
	14 available on archive.org:
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	17 In 2020 after sustained legal demands requesting a set of
	18 messages within the Usenet Archive be redacted, and to avoid
	19 further costs and accusations of manipulation should those
	20 demands be met, the archive has been removed from this URL and
	21 is not currently accessible to the public.
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	23 Included in this item is a file listing and the md5 sums of the
	24 removed files, for the use of others in verifying they have
	25 original materials.
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	28 You can still find a copy from a few well-crafted searches.
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	31 Anyway, when I downloaded these archives, I realized that most of them
	32 were in mbox format, which kinda sucked for reading. So, I ended up
	33 splitting them into spool files, which made it much easier to read using
	34 slrn. Some of the archives seemed to be ripped from Google Groups at
	35 some point, so I took out all those additional X-Google-* headers from t…
	36 posts.
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	39 The end result is an archive that's around 20MB compressed and 105MB
	40 uncompressed. It covers alt.gopher and comp.infosystems.gopher from 1992
	41 to 2013, with approximately 22,000 posts. It's all set up and ready for
	42 anyone with slrn installed to dive into. I even included a slrn
	43 configuration file with some decent default settings.
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	46 To check out the archive, just follow these steps:
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	49 curl -O gopher://jay.scot/9/files/usenet/gopher-usenet-archive-1992.…
	50 tar -zxvf gopher-usenet-archive-1992.tar.gz
	51 cd gopher-usenet-archive
	52 slrn -f newsrc -i slrnc
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	55 There are a few posts from 2000 that look kinda weird and might show up
	56 as if they're from 1970. And with that, we reach the end of this phlog!
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	59 Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
	60 From: [email protected] (Edward Vielmetti)
	61 Subject: Welcome to comp.infosystems.gopher!
	62 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 05:18:35 GMT
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	64 Hello, and welcome to comp.infosystems.gopher. The newgroup
	65 message went out yesterday, and we're going to migrate traffic
	66 over from the old alt.gopher group into the brand new "official"
	67 group.
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	70 .EOF