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* Re: [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET
@ 2019-11-21 12:46 Jason Stevens
  2019-11-21 13:23 ` arnold
  2019-11-21 17:22 ` Tomasz Rola
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 38+ messages in thread
From: Jason Stevens @ 2019-11-21 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bakul Shah, Larry McVoy; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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I keep a copy of the utzoo files. 
And then I hacked the altavista desktop search the files using Apache to filter content inline. 
https://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com/altavista

I know I'd love to feed it more data, the utzoo stuff is massive for 1991, but it's really trivial for 2019.  It's around 10GB decompressed.  

From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org> on behalf of Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 11:53 AM
To: Bakul Shah
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET

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?
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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 


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* [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET
@ 2019-11-19 19:01 Arnold Robbins
  2019-11-21  3:14 ` Larry McVoy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 38+ messages in thread
From: Arnold Robbins @ 2019-11-19 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14a.html

The Early History of Usenet, Part II: Hardware and Economics:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-15.html

The Early History of Usenet, Part III: File Format:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-17.html

Fun reading. Bellovin is another person we should try to get
to join this list.

Enjoy,

Arnold

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2019-11-23  4:42                 ` Warren Toomey
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2019-11-21  3:18   ` George Michaelson
2019-11-21  3:28     ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21  8:56       ` George Michaelson
2019-11-21  9:40         ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-21  9:51           ` George Michaelson
2019-11-21 11:16         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-11-21  3:34   ` reed
2019-11-21  3:39     ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21  3:40   ` Chet Ramey
2019-11-21  3:42     ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21  3:50       ` Chet Ramey
2019-11-21  3:51         ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21  3:58           ` Steve Nickolas
2019-11-21  3:50   ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-21  3:52     ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21  3:58       ` Bakul Shah
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