Usenet Oldnews Copyright © Notice
This archive of Usenet News articles represents the resources and
energy of many people. Therefore, it is under compilation copyright ©
by Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, and David Wiseman, (and the
Universities of California, Toronto, and Western Ontario). The
articles contained herein may be copied and distributed freely,
provided:
1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.
2. The following notice is appended to each article:
The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright© 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.
The History of the Usenet Oldnews Archive
The Oldnews Usenet News Archive was originally compiled on 144
nine-track mag tapes by Henry Spencer, [1]hspencer@zoo.toronto.edu, at
the University of Toronto, Department of Zoology. Those tapes were
borrowed by David Wiseman, [2]magi@csd.uwo.ca of the University of
Western Ontario's Computer Science Department in late 1991.
In June of 1992, Bruce Jones traveled to UWO and spent the better part
of two weeks and the patience of many UWO folks, scraping the bits off
those tapes and getting the files onto disk.
Special Notes of Thanks
To Henry Spencer, for having the forsight to archive Usenet in the
first place, and for graciously making his tapes available to David
Wiseman and myself.
To David and Cheryl Wiseman, for their hospitality during the two
weeks of my stay in London.
To Lance Bailey for the use of his VAX, his 9-track drive, and a 300mb
drive that looked, sounded, and danced like an out-of-balance washing
machine, but held the bits just fine.
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The World Wide Web iteration of the Usenet Oldnews Archive
Created by Bruce Jones
[3]bjones@ucsd.edu
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0503
(619) 534-0417/4410
FAX (619) 534-7315
Communication at UCSD:
[4]http://communication.ucsd.edu/index.html
Bruce Jones:
[5]http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/index.html
References
1. mailto:hspencer@zoo.toronto.edu
2. file://localhost/home/jgoerzen/data/usenet-gopher2/magi@csd.uwo.ca
3. file://localhost/home/jgoerzen/data/usenet-gopher2/bjones@ucsd.edu
4. http://communication.ucsd.edu/index.html
5. http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/index.html
