[Sca-cooks] usenet and google

[Stefan li Rous]

Vincenzo commented:
> ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > On the other hand, when I first found the Florilegium, I
> > found that it had quite a number of my posts from the Rialto.
> > I had no idea that they had been archived.
> >
> > Ranvaig
> All of USENET (newsgroups)) is indexed by Google, the successor
> to DejaNews.  See http://www.google.com and click "Groups"
I don't think those archives go back as far as 1989 or so, which is 
when I started collecting messages for the Florilegium, then known as 
the "Rialto Files" or "Rialto archive". Someone was keeping an archive 
of all the messages from the Rialto but that archive was HUGH. The 
traffic on the Rialto was much, much higher than it is today. Finding 
the needles among that haystack would be rather difficult. Which is one 
reason I started saving selected messages.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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