Usenet postings on CD-ROM (was Re: Dejanews)

From: Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com>
Date: Fri Feb 16 08:50:41 2001

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> Even better, they are going to be reinstating the dejaNews archives
> back to 1995.
>
> Now if someone would just find a way to incorporate the old Usenet on
> CD archives and, perhaps, take donations of single articles that
> people may have archived personally.

A few years ago (probably 1992-1994??) at least one company produced monthly
CDs containing Usenet postings.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that were for use on Sun workstations or
similar, since the CDs used the workstation's native filesystem rather than
ISO 9660. Maybe they changed that for later CDs.

Does anyone have any of these Usenet CDs?


-- Mark
Received on Fri Feb 16 2001 - 08:50:41 GMT