At 8:54 PM 11/8/95, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:

A small point of information. I work for Architext, the company that provides the excite service. We only keep the last two weeks of USENET news around, and don't keep any archives going further back than that. USENET is just too damn huge for us to go to the trouble of keeping comprehensive archives around without good evidence of demand for it among our target audience.

Small world. "Architext" is also the hypertext program I use to cross-index many articles. I'm surprised the new company, also called "Architext," picked a name which will increase confusion. ("Architext," BrainPower, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA.) No Cypherpunks relevance, except to show how name collisions can occur. --Tim May 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."