[Sca-cooks] usenet and google

[Martin G. Diehl]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
> 
> 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  I had no idea that they had been archived.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". 

You're right,  

After the switchover from DejaNews to Google, I recall 
reading that Google was making the entire Usenet archives 
available.  Google Groups Advanced Search allows date 
filtering between May 12, 1980 and the present.  

Now I see that even though DejaNews was monitoring and 
archiving Usenet from 1980 onwards, it was not capturing 
all of the Newsgroups that were defined.  

Thanks for correcting me.  

> 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.

... and you're doing a fine job.  

Identifying topics, importance, editing, authenticating 
(checking sources), even simple reformatting of messages can 
turn out to be tasks that are a little beyond today's 
software/hardware capabilities.  

> Stefan

Vincenzo

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