On 2/24/21 3:27 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>>> Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site:
>>> http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
>>> The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes"
>>> (kind of their equivalent of UseNet).
>>>
>>> It appears from the "Download this site" page that at one time it was
>>> possible to download an archive of the actual content, but the hosting used
>>> for that only provides one week of free hosting, which has expired.
>>>
>>> I don't need the entire archive (though I'd like to get it), but I'd
>>> especially like to get messages from milkwy::23class_semiconductor and
>>> ricks::decschips.
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>> Well if they ever show up, I'd be interested :-).
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>> That archive was largely incomplete: it had the message titles but very few
>> of the actual messages. There were some rather harsh negative comments on an
>> FB group when someone pointed to it. Obviously some people thought that when
>> they were writing their original comments that they would be kept private to
>> the 100,000+ Digital employees :-)
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> The more significant issue may be that DEC, and its successor companies,
> might have objections to the public posting of company confidential material.
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> Too bad only a few things were archived. I looked for myself and found
> exactly one notesfile ("fddi") with saved content, which made for some fun
> reading. But other notesfiles that would actually be more interesting at
> this stage, like ones about RSTS, aren't archived.
>
> I wonder if anyone has the full archive dump. If so I'd love to have that.
>
> paul
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I found a few of my postings in there from AlphaServer and Digital UNIX
days. It is fun being reminded of some of the folks I worked with all
those years ago. My other reaction was "I'm sure glad nobody is asking
me to remember some of that trivia now".
Gary
