[news.misc] Archives of Usenet?

gbnewby@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gregory B. Newby) (01/17/90)

Greetings.  I am looking for archives of Usenet groups.

As part of a bibliometric study, I need a large number of
articles for analysis (ie, in excess of 5000 -- preferably
more).  Since some of the newsgroup ascesion numbers are in
the tens of thousands, these are ideal for my study.

If you know how to access archives, and where they are, please
let me know.

-- Greg Newby
gbnewby@rodan.acs.syr.edu
gbnewby@sunrise.bitnet

davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (01/18/90)

In article <1758@rodan.acs.syr.edu> gbnewby@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gregory B. Newby) writes:
| Greetings.  I am looking for archives of Usenet groups.
| 
| As part of a bibliometric study, I need a large number of
| articles for analysis (ie, in excess of 5000 -- preferably
| more).  

  Since news.lists indicates that traffic is >25000 articles a week, you
can get this from any site which keeps at least two days worth of news
around. I'm a little surprised that your site doesn't have this mush,
they must run a daily expire or something.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (01/18/90)

>| As part of a bibliometric study, I need a large number of
>| articles for analysis (ie, in excess of 5000 -- preferably
>| more).  

Could he get them from the FBI?

;-}

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