* [TUHS] Old USENET Source Code available
@ 2004-09-26 10:09 Aharon Robbins
2004-09-28 23:05 ` Kurt Wall
2004-11-16 16:20 ` John Foust
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Aharon Robbins @ 2004-09-26 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Greetings all.
A few weeks ago, in a fit of nostalgia, I decided to gather together
a personal copy of the various Usenet source groups as still available
at places like gatekeeper.dec.com and ftp.uu.net. The result is
a collection of six newsgroups, net.sources, and then
comp.sources.{games,misc,x,unix,reviewed}.
I removed duplicates and fixed a few other archiving goofs as well.
The result is about 700M, uncompressed. It just fits on one CD. :-)
I have made a tarball available, it's about 145M, if anyone wants it.
URLs:
http://www.skeeve.com/Usenet.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/upload/Usenet.tar.bz2
Only one compression format; the .gz file is almost 180M.
Enjoy,
Arnold
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* [TUHS] Old USENET Source Code available
2004-09-26 10:09 [TUHS] Old USENET Source Code available Aharon Robbins
@ 2004-09-28 23:05 ` Kurt Wall
2004-11-16 16:20 ` John Foust
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kurt Wall @ 2004-09-28 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:09:10PM +0200, Aharon Robbins took 27 lines to write:
> Greetings all.
>
> A few weeks ago, in a fit of nostalgia, I decided to gather together
> a personal copy of the various Usenet source groups as still available
> at places like gatekeeper.dec.com and ftp.uu.net. The result is
> a collection of six newsgroups, net.sources, and then
> comp.sources.{games,misc,x,unix,reviewed}.
Thanks for putting this together and making it available! There are
some real treasures buried in there.
Warmest regards,
Kurt
--
'I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
-- G. K. Chesterton
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* [TUHS] Old USENET Source Code available
2004-09-26 10:09 [TUHS] Old USENET Source Code available Aharon Robbins
2004-09-28 23:05 ` Kurt Wall
@ 2004-11-16 16:20 ` John Foust
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: John Foust @ 2004-11-16 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
At 04:09 AM 9/26/2004, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>A few weeks ago, in a fit of nostalgia, I decided to gather together
>a personal copy of the various Usenet source groups as still available
>at places like gatekeeper.dec.com and ftp.uu.net. The result is
>a collection of six newsgroups, net.sources, and then
>comp.sources.{games,misc,x,unix,reviewed}.
Consider giving a copy to Google. Back in August 2000 they were
looking for old Usenet news archive CDs such as those from Sterling
Software, pre-dating 1995. At the time, I pointed a few leads to and
exchanged a few messages with Michael Schmitt <michael at google.com>.
This applies to anyone with old backup tapes of Usenet news, of course.
- John
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2004-11-16 16:20 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2004-09-26 10:09 [TUHS] Old USENET Source Code available Aharon Robbins
2004-09-28 23:05 ` Kurt Wall
2004-11-16 16:20 ` John Foust
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).