Comp.lang.forth taught me that flame wars were fun and all I needed to enjoy them was popcorn.
It also showed me how every person writing their own version of a language and the associated flame wars actually damaged the the community. I suspect much of Forths lack of traction can be attributed to that. Are you sure it's really useful historical material? On Thu, 30 Jul. 2020, 6:48 am Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk, < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > P.S. I just downloaded (from the internet archive) and looked at the > comp.lang.forth archives and they seem to cover 2003 through 2014. > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:42 PM Joseph S. Barrera III <j...@barrera.org> > wrote: > > > Right now it's (temporarily?) hidden, not deleted. Hopefully it will be > > restored. (I used to be a member of the Google Groups project.) Banned > > groups aren't deleted for some number of weeks in case the ban was a > > mistake. > > > > There are also some backups at > > https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp.lang > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:11 PM Dave via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > wrote: > > > >> I was looking for an old post on comp.lang.forth, and was surprised to > >> discover that the group doesn't appear to be hosted on google groups any > >> more. Searching the group pulls up a "banned group" message, and > selecting > >> the "continue to the group" button shows 0 messages in the group. This > >> appears to be due to spam showing up in the unmoderated group. > >> > >> Google bought Dejanews years ago, and, as I understand, was the defacto > >> main usenet repository. Is is all really gone, or just temporarily > >> hidden? How long ago did this happen? Is the full comp.lang.forth > archive > >> available anywhere? > >> > >> I wonder if it's time to set up some NNTP mirrors and gather as much > >> historical usenet content as possible. Much of the overall content is > >> garbage, but there's some priceless stuff in there, and even more that > will > >> become interesting in light of future developments. > >> > >> Dave > >> > > >
