[Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #946 - 4 msgs

[Lokman Tsui]

> I am trying to compile a corpus of texts from Japanese, English and
> Danish= =20 newsgroups in the 5-year period 1999-2003 in order to make a
> contrastive=20 study of word-formation and neologisms in these 3
> languages. However, much = to=20 my dismay I have recently discovered
> that the average rentention time of NN= TP=20 servers is somewhere
> between 2 weeks and a month!

Instead of using NNTP servers, have you tried using 
http://groups.google.com for this purpose? They archive most newsgroups
way back to 1996.

Regards,
Lokman Tsui
Center for eLaw
University of Leiden