From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id e4804c18 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 317299B548; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:59:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A8893E04; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:59:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B9E6193E04; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:59:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (ns1.bitblocks.com [173.228.5.8]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC9E93DBE for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:59:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125CA156E9F9; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:58:50 -0800 (PST) To: Larry McVoy In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:52:46 -0800." <20191121035246.GJ23794@mcvoy.com> References: <201911191901.xAJJ1d76006989@skeeve.com> <20191121031423.GC23794@mcvoy.com> <20191121035101.211D9156E80B@mail.bitblocks.com> <20191121035246.GJ23794@mcvoy.com> Comments: In-reply-to Larry McVoy message dated "Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:52:46 -0800." From: Bakul Shah MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <37562.1574308730.1@bitblocks.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:58:50 -0800 Message-Id: <20191121035858.125CA156E9F9@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:52:46 -0800 Larry McVoy wrote: Larry McVoy writes: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 07:50:53PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:14:23 -0800 Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Yeah, I'd be super happy if he joined the list. I enjoyed reading > > > those, wished he had gone into more detail. > > > > > > On the Usenet topic, does anyone remember dejanews? Searchable > > > archive of all the posts to Usenet. Google bought them and then, > > > so far as I know, the searchable part went away. > > > > > > If someone knows how to search back to the beginnings of Usenet, > > > my early tech life is all there, I'd love to be able to show my kids > > > that. Big arguing with Mash on comp.arch, following Guy Harris on > > > comp.unix-wizards, etc. > > > > I have occasionally downloaded some mbox.zip files from > > https://archive.org/details/usenet > > But there are too many files there. Would be nice if there > > was a collaborative effort to organize them in a more usable, > > searchable state. Pretty much all of it (minus binaries > > groups) can be stored locally (or using some global > > namespace. > > So is that all of Usenet? Probably not. Too many files to check but I think most or all of dejanews stuf is there.