Alternatives To deja.com's Usenet Archives?

wtfcca asks: "deja.com decided to revamp again. What are the chances it will drop its Usenet archive/search section in the future? Are there alternatives to Deja.com for searching/archiving Usenet? What would it take to set up a Usenet archive/searching site? Besides the obvious hardware requirements, anybody know if deja.com's Usenet searching software is available? I'd consider donating time/equipment to archive a subset of Usenet if so (since I happen to like Deja's power user interface). Some time ago Deja News said it would acquire old article archives, dating back to the mid-80s or some such. Did that ever happen? Every once in a while I see an old articles, but not consistently to lead me to believe that it did."

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In the meantime, use Ija.

[Wakko Warner]

Though I doubt Deja will ever drop its Usenet archive, I'm sick and tired of leafing through their site to find it. Instead, I use a handy command-line Perl program called "ija", which cuts through all the bullshit and gives me what I want: results from a Usenet search.

Ija can be downloaded from here.

- A.P.
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