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   "Willy Beano"  wrote in message   
   news:52cd1543$0$10229$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a@news.astraweb.com   
   > "Jeanne Douglas"  wrote in message   
   > news:hlwdjsd2-F930A7.19131907012014@news.giganews.com...   
   >> In article <52ccbb37$0$19038$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com>,   
   >> "Willy Beano"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Jeanne Douglas"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:hlwdjsd2-D9400C.18412407012014@news.giganews.com...   
   >>   
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   >>   
   >>>> Why do you continue to think anybody's interested in your stupid   
   >>>> fantasies?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> There WAS a massive flamewar on this that caused   
   >>> chaos on the Internet in earlhy 1994.   
   >>   
   >> Oh, really? Then why haven't you posted some actual objective and   
   >> VERIFIABLE evidence of this?   
   >   
   >   
   > The trouble is that Usenet does not  have very many   
   > archives before DejaNews (now Google Groups),   
   > came online in 1996. Archives before that time   
   > are not complete.   
   >   
   > This is part becuase a lot of admins had to manually   
   > delete a lot of articles when hard disks quickly   
   > filled up. Like I said, this caused a lot of chaos   
   > worldwide on the Internet. That is a lot of   
   > the reasoin a lot of the posts never got archived,   
   > as well as complete archives, prior ot DejaNews,   
   > in 1996, not being there.   
      
      
   There are archives going back before DejaNews, from the University of Toronto.   
   The computer science guys there saved alot of stuff on tape. Google has them   
   now online. While as they are incomplete, they do cover the skating groups   
   pretty well from that era.   
      
   If this flamewar was really as big as you say, it is inconceivable that at   
   least SOME posts from it would not have survived.   
      
      
   Terry Hall   
   Head of Special Duties Section   
   Portland Ice Skating Society - New Zealand's Tonya Harding fan club   
   http://www.pdxiss.org   
      
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