On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:50:18 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy
wrote:

Okay, I'm a curious person. According to Google groups,
rec.crafts.metalworking has been active since 1992. But Google was only
established in 1998, so how did they obtain the message archives dating
back to 1992? I thought that in earlier days Usenet messages just
expired and vanished into cyberspace...

Chris
Got 'em on CD from the FTP site - see FAQ
http://w3.uwyo.edu/~metal/faqa.html
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada