Ah this has reminded me of dejanews.com the usenet archive. Before the days of Stack Overflow that was absolute gold for looking up an error message or code issue.
If I remember rightly Google bought the data when they shutdown and incorporated it into Google Groups.
And then axed Google Groups and refused to release the data. Typical Google.
you can bet any spicey stuff went into your dossier, too
Try https://usenet-rewind.com/