Re: A question to David Empson

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <fpgovsor1qah50m2mnp3thvlmfulc1qc7o@news.newsguy.com>,
Paul Guertin  <pg@sff.net> wrote:
 
> pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>>> I guess there's not enough market for a real book. But even a greppable
>>> archive of everything you've ever posted to Apple II newsgroups would be
>>> a wonderful source of technical information about the Apple II.
>>  
>> It might already be there even though it's not greppable: check
>> out http://www.deja.com
> 
> Deja's Usenet archive is for sale [1], and we don't know if the
> future owners intend on keeping it freely available.
 
We don't know if there will be any buyers.  And if not, we don't even
know whether the public owners will keep it public...
 
> Having a copy of important posts in a safe place would be nice.
 
Well, as long as Deja's Usenet still is available, anyone can go
through those posts and save them as local copies, then make a huge
greppable file of it.
 
> [1] http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39622,00.html
 
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