[WEB4LIB] Re: Alternatives to Deja?

[Rondon Andrade]

Hi,

I'm using DNews.. it's really good ... It has a webinterface and you can
subscribe any Usenet news you want...Try it!!. at

http://netwinsite.com/


Regards,


Rondon
IOOP - Online Information Resources.


----- Original Message -----
From: Charles P. Hobbs <chhobbs at cdrewu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Alternatives to Deja?


>
>
> spober at manhattan.edu wrote:
>
> > Deja (formerly DejaNews) recently cut back its archive of Usenet posts
> > drastically.  While they formerly were a repository for Usenet dating
> > back for some years, they now go back only to early 1999.  According to
> > posts I've seen on some newsgroups, Deja may add back some or all of the
> > archive at some future point but due to a move to new servers, they are
> > rather limited right now.
>
> Don't count on it before the end of the year:
> http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/06/20/deja/index.html
>
> >
> >
> > I'm wondering if there are any competing services offering Usenet
> > archives.
>
> There's http://www.remarq.com, but I've never been able to get it to go
> back farther than January 2000--maybe I'm doing something wrong.
>
>
>
> > Altavista used to search have the option to search Usenet
> > rather than the web, but I don't believe they offer that now.
>
> You can still search "Discussion Groups" ("News" on Altavista means news
> media
> articles), but Altavista only holds on to articles for about a month.
>
> --
> Charles P. Hobbs
> King Drew Health Science Library
> http://www.cdrewu.edu/lib_home.htm
>
>