> At 02:44 PM 10/17/00 -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> >Now, an unimagineable amount of message traffic, much of it
> >having serious potential research use, is gone.
>
> This site says the approximately 16 million postings from
> October 1996 to late 1998 consumes 592 gigabytes:
>
> http://www.archive.org/collections/index.html#Usenet
Well, that's hopeful...
> but of course earlier posts are much less space.
>
> http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/index.html has May 1981-1982.
Of course, in those days, a lot of message traffic was on
The Source and CompuServe (didn't The Source grow from what
used to be called MicroNet?). Then later ('85-???), there was
also BIX (Byte Information eXchange).
I Miss BIX!
> With 30 gig drives at less than $200...
Our firm is looking at optical NAS/SAN in ranges from about
300GB to 1.24TB, but I doubt we'll be able to help host these
archives...'
:-)
-dq
Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 15:49:09 BST