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Subject:    Re: archive of DEC Notes
From:       Gary Grebus via cctalk <cctalk () classiccmp ! org>
Date:       2021-02-25 19:47:36
Message-ID: 7e853dd5-e78f-71b3-d2c9-7c483a7da22e () grebus ! com
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On 2/24/21 3:27 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> \
> > wrote: 
> > On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
> > > Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site:
> > > http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
> > > The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes"
> > > (kind of their equivalent of UseNet).
> > > 
> > > It appears from the "Download this site" page that at one time it was
> > > possible to download an archive of the actual content, but the hosting used
> > > for that only provides one week of free hosting, which has expired.
> > > 
> > > I don't need the entire archive (though I'd like to get it), but I'd
> > > especially like to get messages from milkwy::23class_semiconductor and
> > > ricks::decschips.
> > 
> > Well if they ever show up, I'd be interested :-).
> > 
> > 
> > That archive was largely incomplete: it had the message titles but very few of \
> > the actual messages. There were some rather harsh negative comments on an FB \
> > group when someone pointed to it. Obviously some people thought that when they \
> > were writing their original comments that they would be kept private to the \
> > 100,000+ Digital employees :-)
> 
> The more significant issue may be that DEC, and its successor companies, might have \
> objections to the public posting of company confidential material. 
> Too bad only a few things were archived.  I looked for myself and found exactly one \
> notesfile ("fddi") with saved content, which made for some fun reading.  But other \
> notesfiles that would actually be more interesting at this stage, like ones about \
> RSTS, aren't archived. 
> I wonder if anyone has the full archive dump.  If so I'd love to have that.
> 
> 	paul
> 
> 

I found a few of my postings in there from AlphaServer and Digital UNIX
days.  It is fun being reminded of some of the folks I worked with all
those years ago.  My other reaction was "I'm sure glad nobody is asking
me to remember some of that trivia now".

    Gary


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