From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: c.l.l. archives Date: 31 Oct 2002 23:51:05 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3245097065897848@naggum.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036108266 593 129.240.65.5 (31 Oct 2002 23:51:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 2002 23:51:06 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:45367 * softinfos@yahoo.com (john) | So I tried to download the messages of the c.l.l from the news server | of my ISP (news.datazug.ch) but I can download only the messages since | 04/23/2002. As Barry says, this is actually very good. | In Google I see messages from at least 10 years. Many people who kept archives of newsgroups just quit wasting time on it when Dejanews and then Google took over that function. I am not quite sure how much money they are making and how they plan to say alive, so there is some danger in all that information getting lost. For instance, I used to archive comp.text.sgml when I still thought that SGML was a good idea and helped people with it, but that turned out not to be an effort that people were willing to pay for, but it was time-consuming and cost me money, so I quit doing it. I would suggest getting a permanent Internet connection... -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.