"Ecnerwal" wrote:
Christopher Tidy wrote:

Okay, I'm a curious person. According to Google groups,
rec.crafts.metalworking has been active since 1992. But Google was only
established in 1998, so how did they obtain the message archives dating
back to 1992? I thought that in earlier days Usenet messages just
expired and vanished into cyberspace...

Google bought Dejanews, the company that actually had the idea of
archiving usenet. Still the easiest to remember address to get to the
google group search, though last time I used it it was still broken from
being "improved". You might not notice if you had not used the
"unimproved" search, I suppose.

Yep, it's still broken since they went to the 'beta' version almost a year
ago. I wouldn't have minded the advertisements, but they didn't have to go
borking up the results pages, unfixed since 'beta' replaced the old deja
format.. I know I use it a loss less than I did in the past, and that is
unfortunate; it used to be a great way to obtain information.

Jon