Just a quick note to let anyone else who is interested know that Arjun did send me the missing 1991-1994 www-talk archives and I have made them available (for the moment) via my Dropbox account [1]. Thanks Arjun! The archive amounts to 8,209 emails split up into 10 mbox files.
I am interested in volunteering to massage the data so that they can be made part of the complete www-talk archive [2], but I am not sure who at the W3C I should be talking to about that. So, any pointers on how to get traction on that would be greatly appreciated. I think these emails are an extremely important piece of documentation about the origins of the Web. //Ed [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2797650/www-talk_1991-1994.tar.gz [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/ On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Arjun Ray <a...@nyct.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:36 -0500, Ed Summers wrote: >> I imagine this has come up before, but does anyone know if the >> www-talk discussion list archives between 1992 and 1995 are available? > > Yes. I have what could be a complete set of messages from late 1991, > when the www-talk list was formed, through 1995Q3. The messages are > collected into *NIX mbox format files (and ZIP-ped) for 1991, 1992, and > quarterly thereafter. > > I dimly recall discussing these with Gerald O. way back when, with a > view to adding them to the w3 Archives but nobody ever got a Round Tuit. > > If your visible email address works, I can mail these zip files to you. > > > > > > > >
