21 Nov
2019
21 Nov
'19
6:46 p.m.
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(a)minnie.tuhs.org> on behalf of Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 11:53 AM
To: Bakul Shah
Cc: tuhs(a)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:
So is that all of Usenet?
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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.