Usenet Archives README                              Last Revised: 18 August 2008
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  As of 13 August 2008 this site has begun archiving the nz.* usenet newsgroups
  and a few others. The archives will be made available in this directory in
  the following form:
     ./newsgroup/volume1YY/MMM.tar.Z
  where the .tar.Z archives will contain the individual articles with the
  naming format 1YYMMDD.NN where NN is the article number for that day.
  
  Not all groups will be available in here straight away and the archives
  available here will only be updated every month or so.

  The current release of the software used for archiving newsgroups (rkive v3.1)
  is from 1995 and appears to have some issues with years expressed as "08"
  instead of "2008". It can also be confused by multiple "Date:" lines in a
  message. These two issues can cause some articles to end up in the wrong
  volume.
  
  No archiving was done before October 2007 so all volume numbers lower than 107
  consist of nothing but mis-classified articles. The two issues that can cause
  this occasional mis-classification should be fixed at some point in the 
  future.

  Archives mirrored from other sites such as comp.sources.unix can be found
  in the ./archives directory which is organised by the orign of the
  collections.
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