Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:16

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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 11:55:49 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 2018-07-26, Questor wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> In the 1980s, Usenet was *explicitly* designed and operated such
>>>>>> that posts were ephemeral.  Newsfeed retention times were measured
>>>>>> in days, not years or even months.  While it wasn't impossible to
>>>>>> imagine otherwise, at the time it would have been an exercise in
>>>>>> pure fantasy to do so.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I still remember how angry I was when DejaNews popped up.  Not because
>>>>> they archived Usenet, but because they made the archive /searchable/.
>>>>> In my mind, part of the social contract was that you had to be there
>>>>> at the time.
>>>>> 
>> 
>> From the earliest days BitNet LISTSERVs archived all messages. The user
>> interface was clunky ( batch-oriented), but I seem to recall it allowed
>> searching.
> 
> I don't remember it archiving, I was on I-Amiga.
> 

[from memory]
Retrieve a list of archive files (perhaps one per month, week, or so)
TELL LISTSERV AT xxx INDEX listname

Retrieve one of the archives
TELL LISTSERV AT xxx GET listname archivename

I think there was a search.

Actually, Listserv is (AFAIK) still available using internet connections.

-- 
Pete

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