More on renaming

Gene Spafford (spaf@cs.purdue.edu)
Thu, 11 Oct 90 23:05:10 EST

I found two more archives chock full of interesting things, but they
are too large to burden the mailing list with.

If you want to look at them, ftp to arthur.cs.purdue.edu, and get the
files ~ftp/pub/spaf/{rename,usenet2}.Z

rename contains mail traffic related to my first start at renaming
some groups. I don't have the archive of the mailing list &
discussion that followed, but you can see the obvious beginnings of
the "grand renaming" fully months before the Atlanta Usenix where we
agreed on a final plan.

usenet2 started out with my wanting to have a mailing list where we
could all discuss a more rational replacement for Usenet. There is
tons of stuff in that archive I didn't remember until I looked through
it. It's long, though. However, if you look through, you will find:
* comments that presage Arbitron, ClariNet, EFF, NNTP and other
things that have come to pass.
* Mark Horton and I both predicting the death of the net. :-)
* Comments on the copyright flaps at the end of 85
* Newsgroup propagation, usage, and poster statistics from 1984 & 1985
* Dates for start and milestones with the Stargate & UUCP project.
Plus other stuff.

--spaf

PS. Packrats with large disks are greatly appreciated by historians. :-)

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