It's great to see some Usenet archives out there to partly make up for the disappointment of Google Groups. But I'm sad that this archive seems to be incomplete, even within its stated date range. Back in the day, I was active on rec.arts.books.tolkien and alt.fan.tolkien: in this archive, I can't find any trace of the massive "alt." hierarchy at all, and the list of files for the "rec." hierarchy doesn't include the Tolkien group. For that matter, the list includes rec.humor.funny and rec.humor.d and others, but apparently not rec.humor itself. (It really does make you appreciate just how substantial the effort of collecting a comprehensive Usenet archive would be.)
On another note, not that anyone here would be able to fix it, but this list would be a lot easier to search through if the item names didn't all begin with "Usenet newsgroups within", so you could jump to first letters in a meaningful way.
On another note, not that anyone here would be able to fix it, but this list would be a lot easier to search through if the item names didn't all begin with "Usenet newsgroups within", so you could jump to first letters in a meaningful way.