From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265159AbTLWNR1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:17:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265156AbTLWNR0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:17:26 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:5087 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265159AbTLWNRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:17:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:17:15 +0000 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , Florian Weimer , jw schultz , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: SCO's infringing files list Message-ID: <20031223131715.GA4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <1072125736.1286.170.camel@duergar> <200312221519.04677.tcfelker@mtco.com> <20031223002641.GD28269@pegasys.ws> <20031223092847.GA3169@deneb.enyo.de> <3FE811E3.6010708@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:34:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Trying to find the kernel list archives from that timeframe would likely > clarify the issue. There were several lists back then: "linux-activists" > mailing list, and of course the "comp.os.linux" newsgroup (this was before > it split into multiple newsgroups). > > I've found some archives for linux-activists, but no newsgroup archives > going that far back.. Anybody? http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search They'd done what DN had promised and never did - merged old usenet archives into their database, all way back to '81. The earliest they have on comp.os.linux is March 1992 and results of voting on newgroup had been posted by tytso on Mar 25 1992. There's a bogus crosspost into (still not existing) c.o.l on Mar 21 and regular postings starting on Mar 31. IOW, archive goes all way back to the group creation. alt.os.linux archives there start on Jan 19 1992 (newgrouped somewhere around Jan 17, took several days to propagate). Before that it's c.o.minix, but by the time you are looking for migration from c.o.m should've been over.