From: Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:46:49 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ADFDF14544A65F35.2fa4e8c1-02e0-4b17-b0a1-e8f683a84d44@mail.outlook.com> (raw)
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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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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-21 12:46 Jason Stevens [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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
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