OT: Couple of google groups questions

[shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com]

> Hence I'm just curious as to whether anyone else has managed
> to collect an archive together with the emphasis being on the
> historical value of it

Pre-Google, Pre-Deja, we have:

1.  Many private/university archives of parts of Usenet.  These are
    most of Google's earliest Usenet archives.  And they are acknowledged
    by Google.

2.  In the mid-90's there was some controversy because there were a
    couple of companies selling CD's with Usenet archives on them.  These
    were not old (at the time) archives, they were mostly content from the
    early 90's on up.

3.  Mailing lists that were gatewayed to/from Usenet.  Some of these
    have pretty solid archives going back to the late 70's.  Arguably
    these are mostly mailing-list items and not Usenet items so they shouldn't
    count.

4.  At one time Altavista had a pretty good archive of Usenet.  (Back
    when Altavista was King of the Search Engines!)  Did Deja buy this
    archive as part of its initial offering, or what?

Tim.