DejaNews all over again--a URL for Usenet Searching
I usually avoid passing on URLs of interesting sites, in the name of conserving bandwidth (*), but this one really has me jazzed: http://dejanews.com/ It allows searching of Usenet archives (a few months' worth, from what I can see). This was pointed out to me on the Cyberia list, by Eugene Volokh, who wrote: " Check out http://dejanews.com/ -- truly a remarkable service. They index a huge number of Internet news groups, and let you search through them for any word or words you want. " Want to know what people are saying about some new book? About some political topic? Most importantly, about you behind your back? Check it out! Lots of fun, and a bit scary." A good way for newcomers to find out what's been written on some topic that interests them, or to see who's writing what. (I checked out the index for: "Blacknet," "Chaum," and a bunch of other things...the possibilities are endless, and I suspect this will be the URL I go to more often than any other.) --Tim May (* Perhaps someday we might ask people what their favorite URLs are. We've done polls on books, so why not URLs?) Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."
On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
A good way for newcomers to find out what's been written on some topic that interests them, or to see who's writing what. (I checked out the index for:
Lycos includes the entire cpunks archive at hks.net (not just the address, the whole damn archive can be keyword searched), also another nice method. Did me wonders for a term paper. Will have to do until keyword searches are added to the archive itself. (wildcard searches also work at dejanews, which gives me 68 hits for tcmay@* , including your sensemedia address. Somehow I don't think any of the klaus@* addresses are yours)
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I usually avoid passing on URLs of interesting sites, in the name of conserving bandwidth (*), but this one really has me jazzed:
Just a pointer to the thread in comp.society.privacy re the Dejanews "Author Profiles". I expect most any c'punk expects their words to last forever and eventually get cross-referenced, but some people are getting really tweaked about seeing all their posting activity correlated. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@cybrspc.mn.org PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey@cybrspc.mn.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMJ6mmBvikii9febJAQFhywP9H5leIfYlmDABeozti6ZAuT+QG/4kR1Aw 6LGEsVtRmyGY6nyXxJ905TRNHk2jegbR2nXEyXEcB+B5cI9Ef1+wqY7JRlWY90gT KfaDKSTMMX5clXcy0RqGeXJfOJ2QF7vLAwRV87pCH8kVNStfSeMFiSFZSRc75dP2 s6UrpmF0pPw= =Wyc3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
In article <acc3adfa0702100476eb@[205.199.118.202]>, Timothy C. May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:
I usually avoid passing on URLs of interesting sites, in the name of conserving bandwidth (*), but this one really has me jazzed:
Equally interesting is the author profile feature. They don't provide a perfectly convenient way to access it, so use this form. <head> <title>DejaNews author profile quickskip</title> </head> <body> <form action="http://marge.dejanews.com/cgi-bin/dnauthor-profile.tcl"> <p><input type=text size=64 name=author value="shields@tembel.org"></p> <p><input type=submit></p> </form> <p>DejaNews is here</p> </body> -- Shields.
Synchronicity at work. On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
It allows searching of Usenet archives (a few months' worth, from what I can see).
It's extremely funny that you of all people should post this Tim, as your tcmay@got.net address was the first thing I ran a search on when I discovered this site. Judging by the amount of posting you do here, I was surprised that I only got 36 listings on your new address (1/3 of which quoted you but not directly written by you). Either you post more to alt, soc and talk (which they don't have) or you use a third address (the second thing I tried was tcmay@netcom.com, even less, though the archive's pretty recent, so that's expected). Hmm, so you know insiders at Apple and recently held around $65,000 of their stock and sold off, saving around $12k in the process after being tipped off? Hmmm... (from rec.investment or something along those lines. Want me to repost your original article? heheheh. <insert evil smile>) I figured I'd send this to you as a private note, but then I figured this thing really is scary and has a lot to do with anonymity. Watch out folks. Litte Brother is saving everything you've ever said on usenet. Your old posts just won't go away. (Not that someone who is so open in his views and true name as yourself would mind, Tim, but I'm certainly happy for my sake, that alt isn't archived yet. It's bad enough they have rec.) Ps. I will of course run searches on every other address that the who command on majordomo@toad.com supplies me with, so watch what you say ladies, gents and otherwise. ;-> Get those 'nyms ready.
I figured I'd send this to you as a private note, but then I figured this thing really is scary and has a lot to do with anonymity. Watch out folks. Litte Brother is saving everything you've ever said on usenet. Your old posts just won't go away.
This is where I step in. ;-) DejaNews will soon be putting up a privacy statement where they refer people to my site if they want privacy. (I haven't cheked, it may be up there already.)
(Not that someone who is so open in his views and true name as yourself would mind, Tim, but I'm certainly happy for my sake, that alt isn't archived yet. It's bad enough they have rec.)
Ps. I will of course run searches on every other address that the who command on majordomo@toad.com supplies me with, so watch what you say ladies, gents and otherwise. ;-> Get those 'nyms ready.
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