Yeah, they bought DejaNews and their archives. And a lot of other archives since then. But they cannot host the whole service, they are just giving Usenet a Web interface. The whole service is a series of independent servers around the world which propagate the posts. One server sends them to another. Not all the server host all the groups, though. IIRC, Usenet was the second Internet facet to came into being, after e-mail. Only it wasn't called Internet then. It used a different protocol then, too. Mrdodobird, do we exist if nobody hears us fall? :-)

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