According to Christopher Tidy :
Tim Killian wrote:
Google bought Deja-Vu's News Group servers when they went belly-up in
the dotcom bust. Otherwise all of those posts (.5 Tera byte) would have
been lost. Now they're all nicely preserved for some future tyrant who
will undoubtedly use them to persecute "enemies" of the state ;-)

Thanks to all for the explanations. As I said, I'm just curious. So was
RCM in existence before 1992?

IIRC, it started out as a trial newsgroup (a practice which has
fallen by the wayside theses days), and after success as that, it moved
to a full RFD and CFV, and became a full-fledged member of the "Big
Eight" heirarchies.

O.K. The 1992 archives start out with a posting to
trial.rec.metalworking dated 11 Jul 92 01:23:57 GMT, so that was the
start of the idea of the newsgroup.

And the 1993 archives start out with an article dated Mon, 21
Dec 1992 21:55:45 GMT posted to rec.crafts.metalworking with the first
line reading:

"Oh hey! A new newsgroup! Can I be the first poster?"

so -- that was when it started under the current name.

Note that you can download all of the archives from the FAQ
site, http://w3.uwyo.edu/~metal/faqa.html.

Beware that some of them have a Windows virus in a few messages,
so if you are on Windows, you probably should not uncompress them.

Note that earlier messages are zipped files of all the messages
run together, and later ones are gzipped as the technology changed.

It looks as though this archive stops after the first half of
2004 (metal04a.gz), which may mean that the person who was archiving
things, and maintaining the FAQ retired at that time.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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