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From: mparson@bl.org (Michael Parson)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 20:55:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?
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On Tue, 8 May 2018, Henry Bent wrote:

> My father was the sysadmin for Deja News at the time they were bought by
> Google.  I was told that the "buyout" consisted of some Google folks
> showing up with a rack of drives, dumping all of Deja News's data over a
> weekend, and then flying back out to Mountain View.

Now that makes me feel old.  I was the sysadmin for the datacenter
Deja's servers were in.  Who is your dad, if I don't know him directly,
I probably know a few that do.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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