From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>, Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:40:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7395199a-f0c8-220a-c9ff-30ebb5dcde32@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191121031423.GC23794@mcvoy.com>
On 11/20/19 10:14 PM, 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.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.arch
Then a combination of date-based filters and searching for messages
should get you closer. I've used it before, it's a huge pain in the
ass, but it's better than zero.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-21 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-19 19:01 Arnold Robbins
2019-11-21 3:14 ` Larry McVoy
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 [this message]
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
2019-11-21 20:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-24 2:19 ` Michael Parson
2019-11-21 12:46 Jason Stevens
2019-11-21 13:23 ` arnold
2019-11-21 13:31 ` Jason Stevens
2019-11-21 15:58 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-11-22 20:18 ` Justin R. Andrusk
2019-11-22 20:49 ` Henry Bent
2019-11-22 21:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-11-22 21:32 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-23 1:48 ` Jason Stevens
2019-11-23 3:45 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-23 4:42 ` Warren Toomey
2019-11-22 22:21 ` Henry Bent
2019-11-23 0:00 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-11-23 1:36 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-22 23:21 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-23 1:32 ` Justin R. Andrusk
2019-11-23 22:25 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-21 17:22 ` Tomasz Rola
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