Dear air-l members, I am seeking some help locating Usenet archives for research purposes - and in the long run, in a Internet digital heritage perspective. I am working on the French newsgroups (from 1993 on) but also interested in any Usenet archival projects for research or heritage purposes. Maybe the list can help me with the following : 1/ The Google Groups archives, as everyone probably knows, is very difficult to search, especially since they changed their interface. I would like to talk with someone at Google about their Usenet archive, but I find no possibility of reaching them via online forms. Could someone recommend a contact ? 2/ Can anyone recommend papers on the topic of Usenet from an archival perspective (rsearch or heritage) ? I have looked into the AIR-L list archives and have found an essay by Ronda Hauben, but it did not stirr any discussion at the time. 3/ I already know of the UTZOO archives on the Internet Archive. Has anybody exploited these archives ? Does anyone knows of Usenet archive initiatives other than Google's and the Internet Archive's UTZOO ? 4/ Finally, I would be interested to talk with people who have constituted a Usenet corpus and preserved it. Thank you very much in advance ! Camille Paloque-Berges ps : for private messages, please answer at camille.paloque_berges@cnam.fr, thanks ! -- *Post-doctoral reseacher at LabEx Hastec (Histoire et Anthropologie des Savoirs, Techniques et Croyances) *PRES Hautes Études-Sorbonne-Arts et Métiers (HeSam) *Associate researcher at CNAM (laboratoire Dicen-IDF), Paris, France *http://camillepaloqueberges.wordpress.com *06 28 32 63 05