On 10/14/2016 10:32 AM, Richard Schauer wrote:
I'm searching the alt.folklore.computers group (on Google; my ISP no
longer runs a NNTP server) and I can't find Bill's initial invitation
message. I find a later one from June 1997, cross-posted to lots of
comp.sys.* groups, advertising the (existing) group, and a couple from
some comp.sys.* groups from March 13th in which he says the list "just
started."
I hate to fuss, but Google trashed the text archives some time ago after
acquiring the effort that was archiving them. Unless you have your own
email archive and it has the message, there is hit and miss on what
Google may have retained. Don't recall, Deja-news? or such. I know
that several groups i had archived suddenly looked like swiss cheese
after they took it over.
comp.databases.pick being one of them. I also had had an email exchange
with Dennis Richie which was lost. Also was in on the discussions with
some guy name Torvalds who was writing his own system and arguing with
Tanenbaum.
thanks
Jim
