[TUHS] Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[TUHS] Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

I'm looking for something posted to comp.unix.questions in October of
1989, for which I have a printout. I'm hoping I can still find it online
somehow.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Arnold

[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[A. P. Garcia via TUHS]

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 1:11 PM Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for something posted to comp.unix.questions in October of
1989, for which I have a printout. I'm hoping I can still find it online
somehow.


I'm only aware of Google Groups and Henry Spencer's utzoo archive. The
latter was taken down from the Internet Archive, but there's a mirror at
https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/utzoo-usenet/

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[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[Warren Toomey via TUHS]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 11:11:30AM -0600, Arnold Robbins via TUHS wrote:
> I'm looking for something posted to comp.unix.questions in October of
> 1989, for which I have a printout. I'm hoping I can still find it online
> somehow.

Try this: https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.unix.questions/

Cheers! Warren

[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

Hi All.

I wrote:

> I'm looking for something posted to comp.unix.questions in October of
> 1989, for which I have a printout. I'm hoping I can still find it online
> somehow.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold

Thanks to everyone who sent answers.  

A particular thank you to Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>
who found the article: https://article.olduse.net/9157@elsie.UUCP
on the site he maintains.

It's fun to see it.  I agree with ADO that the answers do
reflect the corporate culture of the time. :-)

Arnold

[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[Ori Kuttner via TUHS]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> I wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for something posted to comp.unix.questions in October of
> > 1989, for which I have a printout. I'm hoping I can still find it online
> > somehow.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Arnold
>
> Thanks to everyone who sent answers.
>
> A particular thank you to Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>
> who found the article: https://article.olduse.net/9157@elsie.UUCP
> on the site he maintains.
>
> It's fun to see it.  I agree with ADO that the answers do
> reflect the corporate culture of the time. :-)
>

Sun says, it's not a bug, it is a feature :-)


>
> Arnold
>

[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[Leah Neukirchen via TUHS]

Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> writes:

> Thanks to everyone who sent answers.  
>
> A particular thank you to Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>
> who found the article: https://article.olduse.net/9157@elsie.UUCP
> on the site he maintains.
>
> It's fun to see it.  I agree with ADO that the answers do
> reflect the corporate culture of the time. :-)

Now I wonder what the awk versions did, that didn't print each line
that contains an equal sign?

-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <leah@vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org/

[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> wrote:

> Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> writes:
>
> > Thanks to everyone who sent answers.  
> >
> > A particular thank you to Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>
> > who found the article: https://article.olduse.net/9157@elsie.UUCP
> > on the site he maintains.
> >
> > It's fun to see it.  I agree with ADO that the answers do
> > reflect the corporate culture of the time. :-)
>
> Now I wonder what the awk versions did, that didn't print each line
> that contains an equal sign?
>
> -- 
> Leah Neukirchen  <leah@vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org/

Probably produced syntax errors.  Since it's hard to tell when you
see just the '/=' whether it's an assignment operator or the beginning
of a regular expression. 

Issues with /= still lurk in the One True Awk. See this one from
June: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/pull/255.  :-)

Arnold

[TUHS] Re: Is it still possible to find old USENET postings?

[David Chmelik via TUHS]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:11:30 -0600, Arnold Robbins via TUHS wrote:
> I'm looking for something posted to comp.unix.questions in October of
> 1989, for which I have a printout. I'm hoping I can still find it online
> somehow. [...]

In Usenet newsgroups about Usenet, like alt.(culture|fan).usenet, news.*, 
and ones on newsreaders (Pan2), etc. people linked some old archives 
(other replies already mentioned some) but also said like check large 
commercial Usenet newsservers; GigaNews was a top example but they 
mentioned several others.  Some have free trials and others have prices 
so 
low that for how long they go back for text groups, I think it's worth it 
so will signup... maybe same as free archives mentioned, but it'd be 
easier for me, and maybe more reliable than free servers that often go 
down or lose historical posts.