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+PROPRIETARY DATASET — LICENSE REQUIRED
+
+Datasets:
+  - Usenet Corpus 1980–2013 (the "Cleaned Dataset")
+  - Usenet Corpus 1980–2013 — Threaded (the "Threaded Dataset")
+  (each and together, the "Dataset")
+
+Copyright © 2026 OwnedByDanes LLC. All rights reserved.
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+commercial license only. Downloading or accessing these files does NOT grant you
+any right to use, copy, modify, distribute, or train on the Dataset. To use the
+Dataset for any purpose, you must first obtain a separate written commercial
+license from OwnedByDanes LLC. To request one, contact:
+
+    OwnedByDanes LLC
+    todd@ownedbydanes.com
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+1. No license granted by access. Access to the Dataset is provided solely to
+   allow a prospective licensee to evaluate whether to enter into a commercial
+   license. No rights of any kind are granted by the act of downloading,
+   cloning, viewing, or otherwise accessing the files. All rights not expressly
+   granted in a signed written agreement are reserved by OwnedByDanes LLC.
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+2. Separate written license required. Any use of the Dataset — including but not
+   limited to reproduction, redistribution, creation of derivative works, and
+   use as training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or retrieval data for machine
+   learning or AI systems — requires a commercial license executed in writing by
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+3. Gated access. Access is granted at the discretion of OwnedByDanes LLC and may
+   be conditioned, limited, or revoked. Approval of a gated-access request is not
+   a commercial license and does not itself convey any usage rights.
+
+4. Provenance and content. The Dataset is a cleaned archive of historical public
+   Usenet posts (1980–2013) authored by third parties. OwnedByDanes LLC does not
+   claim authorship of the individual posts. The Dataset has been processed to
+   remove binary attachments, redact author email addresses, replace message
+   identifiers with hashes, and remove content matching malware signatures; it
+   nonetheless contains unmoderated historical material and may contain personal
+   data, offensive content, and third-party intellectual property. Evaluation and
+   any licensed use are undertaken at the licensee's own risk.
+
+5. No warranty. THE DATASET IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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README.md

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+---
+license: other
+license_name: proprietary-license-required
+license_link: LICENSE
+pretty_name: Usenet Corpus 1980–2013 — Full (Samples)
+size_categories:
+  - 10K<n<100K
+task_categories:
+  - text-generation
+  - text-classification
+language:
+  - en
+  - pl
+  - nl
+  - es
+  - fr
+  - it
+  - de
+  - ru
+  - ja
+tags:
+  - usenet
+  - internet-history
+  - forums
+  - conversational
+  - sample
+---
+
+# Usenet Corpus 1980–2013 — Full (Samples)
+
+A small, browsable **showcase sample** of the *Usenet Corpus 1980–2013* (cleaned)
+dataset — long-form, pre-web Usenet posts. This repo is a free preview; the full,
+commercially-licensed corpus (408.0M posts, 103B tokens) is at:
+
+- **Full cleaned dataset (gated):** https://huggingface.co/datasets/OwnedByDanes/Usenet-Corpus-1980-2013-Full
+- **Threaded companion:** https://huggingface.co/datasets/OwnedByDanes/Usenet-Corpus-1980-2013-Threaded
+
+## What's in this sample
+
+Eleven gzipped JSON Lines files: one per hierarchy (~5,000 posts each; ALT ~2,000),
+plus a **Big 8 combined** and an **all-hierarchies combined** sample (~9,000 posts
+each). The per-hierarchy and combined files are independent draws and overlap.
+
+Posts are selected as **whole conversations (threads) of at least 3 posts** — a
+deliberate showcase cut so the sample contains coherent discussions rather than
+isolated one-off posts. It is **not** representative of the full corpus's shape,
+which is mostly single-post threads; it is curated for readability. Related posts
+sit together within each file, and cross-post duplicates are removed within the
+sample. These are the same posts as the *Threaded* sample repo, without the three
+thread fields — see that repo if you want the conversation structure.
+
+## Record schema
+
+Each line is a JSON object:
+
+| Field | Type | Description |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `id` | string | Stable per-post identifier (`msg-` + hash of the original Message-ID). |
+| `group` | string | Newsgroup the post was archived under. |
+| `date` | string | Original post date (RFC 2822). |
+| `author` | string | Author display name as posted. Email addresses are redacted. |
+| `subject` | string | Subject line. |
+| `text` | string | Post body. |
+
+## Provenance and safety
+
+Drawn from the cleaned, de-duplicated corpus: binary attachments and
+`alt.binaries.*` removed, adult groups excluded, author emails redacted,
+Message-IDs replaced with hashes, and content matching ClamAV malware signatures
+removed (the corpus passes a whole-file ClamAV scan with no detections). Content is
+otherwise preserved as posted — unmoderated historical text that may be offensive,
+biased, or wrong, and should be treated as a primary historical source.
+
+## License
+
+**Proprietary.** © 2026 OwnedByDanes LLC. This sample is provided for evaluation
+only and conveys no right to use, copy, redistribute, or train on the data. Any use
+requires a separate written commercial license from OwnedByDanes LLC. See the
+`LICENSE` file. To request a license: **todd@ownedbydanes.com**.