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[Clay Shirky]

was talking to esther dyson last week and likened ICANN's current woes
to those of tale during the soc.culture.tibet namespace war of '93. 

she expressed interst, and now i find, that, because there was no web
to speak of in 93 and no one now archives usenet prior to '95, i can't
find any good re-telling ofo that story. can anyone suggest a source
of either a) usenet posts prior to '95 or b) a good history of usenet?

-clay, 'those who do not back up the past on 8mm tape are doomed to
 repeat it'