Deja News

created by Eric S. Smith
(thing) by Eric S. Smith (?) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:12:38

A Usenet searcher based upon a very thorough database and index. Available through the Web at http://www.dejanews.com/.

Through a system of user accounts, also offers the ability to post to news and receive e-mail at an address of the form juser@my-dejanews.com

(thing) by sabre23t (3.2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Mar 20 2000 at 11:10:36
And now Deja have shed the News and can be reached at http://www.deja.com/. Even the front page now defaults to product search rather than usenet search. One can only presume that products will provide more advertising opportunities than newsgroups posting.

Deja is more than just a free usenet newsgroups and postings searcher and archiver, it also a web-based usenet newsreader that provides features more than a normal newsreader allows.

There are now other free competitors to Deja such as ...

(place) by chaosbreather (6.9 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Mar 03 2001 at 0:20:03

Google has now bought deja.com, so this node is now purely historical.

You can access your account through groups.google.com, and hopefully they will put up a lot more archives and things because of their immense bandwidth and space.

Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.