[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Googling for "mirror uxc.cso.uiuc.edu" found me one hopeful hit: > https://www.funet.fi > pub > misc > Notes.README Ron, Another good search approach that I hadn't thought of. Many thanks! De

[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Maybe https://archive.org/details/usenet-mod It includes > > mod.sources.mbox.zip > > Anyone know of an archive that has stuff older than 1982? > I believe the utzoo Wiseman archive goes back to 1981. I

[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> How much is older than that? I didn't think uucp got going until V7 > was released outside of AT&T in 1980 or 81... I'm sure someone > will correct my notions though :) If memory serves (hahahalolrofl...) the origins of usenet go back to at least 1980. (Ignoring the Plato history.) What set

[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 1:11 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Maybe https://archive.org/details/usenet-mod It includes > > mod.sources.mbox.zip > > Thanks, didn't think of that. I've found things in there before. > > That takes us back into 1984. The net.* hierarch

[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Maybe https://archive.org/details/usenet-mod It includes > mod.sources.mbox.zip Thanks, didn't think of that. I've found things in there before. That takes us back into 1984. The net.* hierarchy is also in the same collection, and its net.sources mbox goes back to ~1982. Anyone know of an

[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Ron Pool via cctalk
> Does anyone have or know of an archive of old mod.sources (predecessor > of comp.sources.unix) posts? I know googlegroups has it, but that only > means nothing since it's effectively inaccessible there. Maybe https://archive.org/details/usenet-mod . It includes mod.sources.mbox.zip (https://ar