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From: cla...@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.culture.usenet,
alt.internet.services
Subject: Newsgroup archives
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Date: 4 Mar 1994 10:37:17 -0600
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Observation: people *constantly* ask each other where to
find archives of various newsgroups, occasionally answer
the question usefully, and, somewhat more frequently, say,
"Well, there's a company putting it all on CD-ROM, and you
can just buy it from them." There are some stupidities in
this situation; perhaps I'm the one generating them, but
I've decided it's time to settle things.
Proposal: it's time to create a NewsArchives list of
places to find archived NetNews posts. Presumably, it
would look something like this:
alt.books.reviews: csn.org:/pub/...
sci.anthropology.paleo: ...au:...
comp.ai: I-can't-remember-now
rec.gardens: wherever-Larry-London-keeps-it
Also, you can buy CD-ROMs from ...
except longer, and more accurate.
Alternatives: I don't think there are any. I haven't
found any existing FAQ that collects this information; the
first two archie servers I tried knew even less than I
about ftp archiving sites (how can this be? I'd like to
investigate this in more detail with an archie person.
Please write, and we'll settle the technical points); www
and various gophers got me no place useful; and the first
couple of *Everything ... Internet ...* books I picked up
(how many of these *are* there, now?) said nothing on the
subject.
Next step: I hope a few people will write and tell me
whether I'm right or wrong about this information not
being available through the usual navigators. If I get
any interest in the idea, I'll go ahead and compile the
list, then make sure I put it someplace we all can find
it.
Is there a better place to thrash this out than
news.newusers.questions?
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Cameron Laird
cla...@Neosoft.com (claird%Ne...@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966
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