Jim asked:
Is anyone still saving each month's archives as that month
passes? Our archives go back 2 1/2 - 3 years (currently to Oct.
2000), and are added to in monthly increments of between 2 and 3
mb each. Since our archive storage is set at 100 mb, and I like
to keep 25 mb open for "emergencies" and a safety net, I am
deleting the oldest month about once every 2 months now.

I've been searching because I thought these existed somewhere-- perhaps on a mirror site in Europe.

Eureka! Google appears to have messages going back to day one for rec.arts.bonsai, & they are searchable/sortable!

Try: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...ec.arts.bonsai

Hit the button to 'search rec.arts.bonsai only'-- that adds "group:rec.arts.bonsai" to the search box when you enter it. After that, I found it helpful to "sort by data" though Google Groups also offfers a "sort by relevance." You can put in a name of t
he poster or even the a word used within a posting (not just words from a post's title). There is also an "Advanced Search" for seeking combinations.

FWIW, on April 1, 1993, news.announce.newgroups reported that "rec.arts.bonsai is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 189:22 (source: http://www.landfield.com/software/ft...ec.arts.bonsai). Mike Barto
lone posted a proposal for establishment of the r.a.b group on February 1, 1993 (source: http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/...ec.arts.bonsai). Mike noted then, "Currently, discussion of the art of bonsai is c
arried out in the BONSAI mailing list, AND in alt.bonsai. This group has, in the 6 months since its creation, been a forum for the discussion of the joys and woes, the art and techniques of growing and maintaining the beautiful dwarfed trees known as bonsa
i.

Somewhere I picked-up that the alt.bonsai newsgroup began in August 1992, but the earliest posts I could readily locate were by Richard K. Nordin in September 1992.

Maybe someone can find when the term "Internet Bonsai Club" replaced the "bonsai mail(ing) list" as a reference. The "tipped tree logo" discussion is probably easily traced. What other discussions carried significance for IBC's history?

Cool... :-)

Best wishes,
Chris... C. Cochrane, , Richmond VA USA

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