I completely forgot about yahoo deleting it's shit afterwards so odds are it's all gone for good with the few exceptions here and there of people that properly crossposted to the newsgroup - which even I didn't do all the time I'd have to admit. Of course this assumes google will keep google groups running forever as well.
Pretty sure that was one of the reasons for starting the egroup/yahoogroup originally - so there'd be a permanent archive given newsgroups were inherently non-permanent.
I remember downloading most uploaded materials for OWSF2000's group. Granted whether I could find that content again among the backups is another question. ^_^ Unfortunately for OW! though it's just whatever was saved to the archive or my own website (Which included a lot of my own posts in threads for at least 2000-2002?)
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Date: 2020-01-01 09:31 am (UTC)From:Pretty sure that was one of the reasons for starting the egroup/yahoogroup originally - so there'd be a permanent archive given newsgroups were inherently non-permanent.
I remember downloading most uploaded materials for OWSF2000's group. Granted whether I could find that content again among the backups is another question. ^_^ Unfortunately for OW! though it's just whatever was saved to the archive or my own website (Which included a lot of my own posts in threads for at least 2000-2002?)