From rswood@therandymon.com Mon Feb 24 12:11:13 2014 Path: diesel.cu.mi.it!feedme.news.telefonica.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!rswood From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:55:04 +0000 Organization: solani.org Lines: 11 Message-ID: X-Trace: solani.org 1393196105 4063 eJwFwQkBgAAIA8BKCGxoHN7+EbyD8WGHE3QcThQqfVaeldR6LbBoWs4nFRvZUQGZHWlifx1FEYE= (23 Feb 2014 22:55:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:55:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVKP9hnCj2HyF3MCr/4wQdi1W7I2hZKSic7MnlXGOJ7GEo1jLiq+jM0QcVLxCv Cancel-Lock: sha1:iSLPgiDefbC9PNb5Ykdh0a1dY/Q= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYERgDAIA8CVGgMpjiMc2X8E/5OC5oZSkU5XeGcO3ivEB9XTXKK7WkdtB0W5Eq5Znh8V3hDT Xref: diesel.cu.mi.it comp.misc:5415 Anybody remember this cartoon from 1996? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GhostOfUsenetPostingsPast I first saw it attached to this Salon article about the geeks who saved Usenet (by helping Google archive DejaNews and other archives a while back). http://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/ It's a great read, if you haven't already seen it. Highly recommended.