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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/

  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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