[oofoe]

Was there not a huge archeological effort by people all over the place to resurrect old backups and older servers so that the news archive could be complete? Lovingly retrieved, curated and donated because DejaNews was going to be "forever".

I realize that breathless reviews of "Small Wonder" and 40 line Boba Fett .sigs may not be the wisdom of the ages, but it's still an important part of the history of the Internet.

[dn3500]

Yes, the UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive. It was on IA for a while but has been forced underground for legal reasons. You can still find copies pretty easily.

https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive

[qingcharles]

Reason for removal in case anyone was wondering:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i2btuu/utzoo_a...

[Shorel]

Which legal reasons?

Is there a monopoly over Usenet archives, or is it someone arguing about their own posts only?

I would believe it is wrong for someone to have copyright over what's basically distributed public forums.

[generationP]

Do we know what messages were the bone of contention? Don't tell me this isn't common knowledge among dozens of people at least...

[rwmj]

Is there a Torrent of that somewhere so we can keep it alive?