Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 22:29:23 09/20/05
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On September 20, 2005 at 17:03:34, Carey wrote: >On September 20, 2005 at 15:56:46, Volker Pittlik wrote: > >>On September 20, 2005 at 15:51:53, Joshua Shriver wrote: >> >>>Anyknow know where to download a full archive of rec.games.chess.computer? >> >>http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/about?hl=en >> >>Volker > >That's not downloading it, though. > >Plus, that only goes back to 1995. The stuff older than that is gone. I don't >know where it went or why they removed it, but about 10 years of messages are >gone. > >I hope it's a temporary glitch, because I had been using it to search for old >chess programs and authors. > > >If you are interested in very old messages, I found a few from 1981-1985 back >when it was NET.Chess > >I stumbled across these when I was trying to track down some old programs. > >http://groups.google.com/group/net.chess > >These are back from the early days of usenet. When the newsgroups were done by >direct dialing among systems, etc. The Net.Chess group was one of the very >first they did, since they were very interested in computer chess. (I guess >it's fortunate for us, they weren't into something a little more >kinky....[grin]) Before 1995 there was only rec.games.chess. It split into 5 groups, one of which was rgcc. kp
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