21 Nov
2019
21 Nov
'19
9:50 a.m.
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:14:23 -0800 Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> 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.