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Article #624960Re: usenet history, was 1958 Crisis in education
From: John Levine
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:48
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:48
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In article <5b649d7a...@news.dslextreme.com>, Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote: >>They were only ephemeral because we didn't have enough disk space to >>keep them all. The more disk you had, the more you kept. There were >>usenet sites fed by magtape, and I always assumed they kept the tapes. > >I have never heard of sites getting their newsfeed via magtape, but I suppose it >is possible. It definitely happened, I knew the guy who made the tapes. It was a government agency that didn't want any live connections between their computers and the outside. The tapes probably slowed things down by a few days but in that era it wasn't a big deal. >>As others have noted, the fact that we have archives back to 1981 >>tells us that *someone* was always keeping them. > >A more likely explanation is that they found full system backups, and restored >the news spool from them. Possibly. I have full archives of comp.compilers because I'm the moderator. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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