Does there exist an archive somewhere of posts to the USENET newsgroup `sci.math.research`?


The best approximation I'm aware of is [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/g/sci.math.research). However, despite the Google brand name, the search capability of Google Groups is abysmal, and it is hard to tell how much content is really archived there.


I have an old bookmark to a [Math Forum URL that currently seems to be dead](https://web.archive.org/web/20180715121113/http://mathforum.org/kb/forum.jspa?forumID=253). An old website called the [The Mathematical Atlas](https://math-atlas.org/index/forum.html) indicates that the Math Forum moved to [forum.swarthmore.edu](http://forum.swarthmore.edu) but that site currently seems not to be working either.


The [Usenet Archives](https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=sci.math.research) website, as of this writing, seems to have archived a grand total of two (2) posts from `sci.math.research`. **EDIT August 2022:** The Usenet Archives has now archived much more of the content, but there is no easy way to search it.


This question was prompted in part by another MO question, [Looking for source: “How not to be a graduate student”](https://mathoverflow.net/q/393898), which hints that the desired transcript may have been posted to a USENET newsgroup such as `sci.math.research` or `sci.math`. In my opinion there was some valuable content posted to `sci.math.research` and it would be a shame if it were lost forever.



sci.math.research archive?
There's a bit of content [on Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/usenet-sci.math): the link says `sci.math`, but among the files in the collection there is a `sci.math.research.20140626.mbox.gz` which contains ~11k messages apparently posted between 2003 and 2014. Sadly, this does not seem to contain the specific content you were looking for.


You could try contacting Archive.org: even though they don't have the data, they might be in position to persuade Google to give them a full dump of a low-volume high-quality newsgroup like `sci.math.research` since it's part of their service mission to archive this sort of data.


Another option is to ask [Daniel Grayson](https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/%7Edan/), who was moderator for `sci.math.research` (he wasn't the only one, but there seems to be a connection between the newsgroup and UIUC so maybe the chances are higher): it isn't unlikely that the moderation process kept a complete archive at some level.


