On 06/11/2014 13:40, Nick Maclaren wrote:

Sigh. Despite Wikipedia, Usenet did not arise like Athena, but was
based on existing mailing lists. Naturally, there would be no Usenet
archives as such before that, but there might be ones of those mailing
lists.

Double sigh.
Who[1] would want to read the scribblings of web weenies from thirty
three years ago?
By its de-facto nature Usenet (and its predecessors) posts are not
worthy (beyond the wants of a few academics) of archiving.


[1] Apart from a few academics (who like that sort of thing).