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========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:32:05 -0600
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Doug Yowza <yowza@YOWZA.COM>
Subject: Usenet net.sources (was Re: [CM>] Earliest "free software")
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, John Cowan wrote:
>Net.sources (later comp.sources.misc) was apparently not archived before the Great Renaming of 1987. Mod.sources (later comp.sources.unix) shows archived postings back to at least November 1984.
There's a spotty early archive of Usenet articles at UCSD, including net.sources from January 1982, as well as some other interesting historical Usenet stuff:
http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.Hist/
-- Doug
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Doug Yowza <yowza@YOWZA.COM>
Subject: Usenet net.sources (was Re: [CM>] Earliest "free software")
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______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, John Cowan wrote:
>Net.sources (later comp.sources.misc) was apparently not archived before the Great Renaming of 1987. Mod.sources (later comp.sources.unix) shows archived postings back to at least November 1984.
There's a spotty early archive of Usenet articles at UCSD, including net.sources from January 1982, as well as some other interesting historical Usenet stuff:
http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.Hist/
-- Doug
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