According to Google Groups today, there were only 227 articles posted to comp.lang.c between 1981 and 1995.
The effect seems to extend broadly across the comp.lang.* hierarchy. I haven't investigated beyond that. I hope this is a temporary glitch and not permanent data loss.
It's a little scary how much the world has come to rely on Google for historical data archiving.
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This seems to be a search related issue.
Here it is listing messages not only in comp.lang.c, but in comp.unix.bsd. comp.unix.programmer etc.
If you look at the archive page (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/about) you will see there are tons of messages each month, since 1986 (it lists 1 in 1969, another glitch I guess).
In the topics page (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/topics) it shows there are 137441 messages.
Anyway, yes it is a little scary. Are those Usenet messages stored only by Google?
> Are those Usenet messages stored only by Google?
AFAIK, Google has the only complete collection.
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