new archive on the Zoomer WWW site

Brian Smithson (brians@blob.best.net)
Wed, 8 Nov 1995 23:00:38 -0800

America Online has long had a discussion forum for Zoomers, and they've archived
their second such forum (with messages from late December 1993 to early
September 1995). I grabbed a copy of that archive an munged it into a form which
is roughly compatible with the zoomer-list archives, and so now it's available
in hypertext and it's also full-text searchable. Hey, even AOL users might find
that useful!

Since the AOL forum message format is pretty simple (no message-ID's), the
archive isn't threaded -- but you can sort by subject if that helps. Also, if
you look closely you'll notice that all of the messages appear to have been sent
on a Monday, regardless of whether the calendar date happened to _be_ a Monday.
Internet mail format expects a day-of-the-week, and AOL only provided the
calendar date, so I decided that every day was a Monday :-).

Anyhow, the hypertext archive is in:
http://www.grot.com/zoomer/zoomer-list/aoldis2/

and it's searchable if you select the appropriate archive, in:
http://www.grot.com/cgi/zwwwwais.cgi

Enjoy!

-- 
-Brian Smithson
 brian@grot.com