The question was raised recently what is/was Deja.
All of the newsgroup postings are archived and can be found in the Deja newsgroup archives. Deja was falling apart after trying to do things other than what they originally did -- archive newsgroups and provide a fairly respectable Boolean search engine.
Falling apart meant that instead of having 8 years of archives with a promise to add entries back to 1985 (??) they fouled up and had no archives, then 1 week, then 1 month, finally after about a year they had back to May 19, 1999 plus some random previous postings. Nowhere near what there used to be. Since we relied on older postings to research problems this was a terrible loss of information.
You can get an idea of what was available in the search engine by
looking at http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm
since you won't see it at the new Google
"Usenet Advanced Search"
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
which does not allow you to use a Boolean search with mixed use
of AND(&), OR(|), NEAR(^), and parentheses. Google has
promised to give back some advanced search but in the meantime
has taken all of this away.
You can read the Google Press release at
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html
where they indicate that the acquisition provides Google with Deja's entire
Usenet archive (dating back to 1995).
- news:OYXnCHEbAHA.996@tkmsftngp03 would allow your newsgroup reader to pull up this posting, by itself, no thread. For older articles use Google.
- <OYXnCHEbAHA.996@tkmsftngp03> can be pasted into Deja via http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/deja2.html, which formerly gave you access to the thread on archived postings.
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