🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 18:16:36 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>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.

The I-Amiga list is now on a private server, I don't know about the
rest.