Re: What happened to this grooup?

"Kevin Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Neb Okla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > People abandoned the public newsgroup for a private site.
> >
> > Personally, I think it's a pain having to approve every newsgroup post.
>
> This is one advantage of using the web to access it; if you're logged in
> no approval is required.  The web interface is actually one of the
> nicest discussion group interfaces I've encountered.

I've seen much better (for example):
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?NewsGroup=microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress&SLCID=US&ICP=GSS3&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups

And even that example isn't as flexible as the NNTP standard which at the
very least allows access to a variety of news readers, along with a more
responsive interface, and the ability to respond to posts offline.


> > They do have it divided out nicely by category, but much as with Usenet
at
> > large, people simply crosspost everywhere all the time.
> >
> > So it really just moves discussions out of the public domain.
>
> Al least it is fully archived, unlike most web forums.  The entire
> message database since inception is accessible.

rec.toys.lego is also fully archived by several sources (most notably Google
Groups (which was once DejaNews).

Lugnet's archive could only possibly go back as far as (could it be 6 years
ago tomorrow?) this post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=65idtp%24ftq%241%40darla.visi.com

The Google archive goes back as far as 1/10/1994.  It includes 110,000
messages that aren't in the Lugnet archive.

I guess it depends on your definition of "fully archived".