> As another anecdote, I personally posted a huge list of AWK one-liners 20 years ago to Usenet (comp.lang.awk) and I can't even retrieve that message. That's just pure ASCII text (probably less than 2k) and even the Google Groups (dejanews acquisition) archives don't have it.
Google broke the Deja archive after acquiring them in 2001 and it has never worked properly since that time. The UI and the search sucks. The archives are still there though. I wish Google would release the archives to the public and set up a non-profit to manage them.
This is actually another in a long list of known search bugs on Google Groups: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/kej8-gpV...
Broken search has been a constant problem since Google acquired Deja: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/google-a-search-c...
Google broke the Deja archive after acquiring them in 2001 and it has never worked properly since that time. The UI and the search sucks. The archives are still there though. I wish Google would release the archives to the public and set up a non-profit to manage them.
Compare this to Gmane, essentially a one-man project, where the community stepped up to bring it back on the web after only a couple of months: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/09/06/gmane-alive/