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[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 23:46 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 06:21, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > Which website contains information of:
> >
> > 1. complete usenet newsgroups list
> 
> None of which I am aware (maybe Google Groups). The available newsgroups are 
> determined by the newsfeed you use.
> 
> > 2. number of messages in each group
> 
> Again, this is controlled by the newsfeed you use and how far back in time you 
> newsfeed keeps oldmessages.

Kurt, I dimly recall way back when there was an IRC command line that
would suck down a list of all of the available newsgroups.. it took
forever to arrive too! Maybe that is what he's looking for? Man, that
was back in the modem days. I had to get a dedicated line from Beckley
to Charleston WV (wide area line) to even hit the net back then at local
rates. Ric

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