Ija Ija provides a command line interface to the Deja database. When run on an ISP shell account, Ija can substantially speed up your access to Google Groups because it discards many of the bytes sent by google. These bytes can be discarded before passing through the slow pipe to the user. View a sample Ija session. Effects of the Google takeover On the whole, Google's takeover of Deja's message archive is beneficial.
Searches are several orders of magnitude faster.
One slight drawback is that Google does not currently offer messages in plain text - the format in which they were originally posted. Ija used to use this feature of Deja to minimize download time. Therefore, a substantial fraction of the bytes retrieved from Google are discarded. Requirements Ija is written in Perl, and requires Perl5 and the LWP and URI modules. If a machine which you administer is lacking one or more of these, you can download them from CPAN .