Newsgroup archives

[Ruth Wilson]

Is there any way now to see posts from the last few months? Somebody
replied to my post earlier this year about my Fraser family and I wanted
to double check something.
I'm using Thunderbird as my newsgroup reader, and I've tried Google
groups (nothing showing).
Not important, just slightly annoying.

Thanks

Ruth

[r***@yahoo.co.uk]

20 June 2020 at 12:14, Ruth Wilson wrote:
Newsgroup archives (at least in part)

Post by Ruth Wilson
Is there any way now to see posts from the last few months?

Here I can reset the articles read count and get a lot of older articals (as
long as they still exist on server)

just checked

First available aticle: 246249
Last available article: 482805

So you should be in luck

[john]

Post by Ruth Wilson
Is there any way now to see posts from the last few months? Somebody
replied to my post earlier this year about my Fraser family and I wanted
to double check something.
I'm using Thunderbird as my newsgroup reader, and I've tried Google
groups (nothing showing).
Not important, just slightly annoying.
Thanks
Ruth

https://soc.genealogy.britain.narkive.com has a full archive (24179 Threads
216749 Posts) but it can take a few hours (?) for the latest items to
appear.

Posts where the thread name as changed, e.g. Re: HES and SCRAN (was: Re:
Manx Archive - BBC Booster Opening) appear under the original title e.g.
Manx Archive - BBC Booster Opening

[Ruth Wilson]

Post by john

Post by Ruth Wilson
Is there any way now to see posts from the last few months? Somebody
replied to my post earlier this year about my Fraser family and I
wanted to double check something.
I'm using Thunderbird as my newsgroup reader, and I've tried Google
groups (nothing showing).
Not important, just slightly annoying.
Thanks
Ruth

https://soc.genealogy.britain.narkive.com has a full archive (24179 Threads
216749 Posts) but it can take a few hours (?) for the latest items to
appear.
Manx Archive - BBC Booster Opening) appear under the original title e.g.
Manx Archive - BBC Booster Opening

Thank-you. That's worth saving (is it something that could be in the
FAQ? I did check there too)

Ruth

[Richard Smith]

Post by john
https://soc.genealogy.britain.narkive.com has a full archive

It's not a full archive, as it only goes back to around 2003. But it
still extremely useful.

Richard

[john]

Post by Richard Smith

Post by john
https://soc.genealogy.britain.narkive.com has a full archive

It's not a full archive, as it only goes back to around 2003. But it
still extremely useful.
Richard

Is there a fuller archive anywhere else?

The internet archive https://archive.org/download/usenet-soc has a 155Mb
zipped MBOX file archive from 23 Oct 2000-17 Jun 2013 (623 Mb/15.4M
lines unzipped)
https://archive.org/download/usenet-soc/soc.genealogy.britain.mbox.zip

Notepad++ can open it. It is readable with a mbox-viewer.exe (but I
stopped before it had loaded the whole file).

Perhaps someone could host it?