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- From: axman@acadia.Kodak.COM (Mike Axman)
- Subject: Re: WHERE CAN I GET OLD USENE
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.175823.1774@kodak.kodak.com>
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- Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
- References: <1149.42.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:58:23 GMT
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- In article <1149.42.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>, victor.volkman@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Victor Volkman) writes:
- >nabil@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Aaron Nabil) said:
- >
- >-> Can anyone supply a pointer to where I can buy all of last years
- >-> USENET posts on CDROM?
- >->
- >-> Or if anyone has such a collection, I'd gladly rent it from you for a
- >-> reasonable fee and/or put down a deposit. I just need it for about a
- >-> week to search for some articles I missed.
- >
- >Usenet runs upwards of 40 megabytes per day. At that rate, you could
- >not expect to get more than 15 days on a CD-ROM. I suppose you could
- >slam the whole year onto a set of 24 disks...
- >
- Don't forget that these ASCII type articles would compress to fractions
- of their original size with a basic data compression algorithm.
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