0LD SK001 QU3ST10N: soc.culture.tibet

[Bob Drzyzgula]

That's a toughie. Easy enough to find references to it,
search on various subsets of the words "usenet tibet
soc.culture.tibet 1993 flamewar namespace" in Google
and you'll find some stuff. Doing that, however, I didn't
manage to find any real, unbiased history (or even parallel
unbiased histories) of the event. The closest I found to
something that would give a taste for it can be found at

http://www.landfield.com/usenet/control/soc/

In the two soc.culture.tibet files, you can see the raging
control posts that persisted at least into 1998.

At the same site, you can see the news.announce.newgroups
posting that authorized the creation of the group:

http://www.landfield.com/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.tibet

There are over 1000 voters listed, perhaps some subset of
them are still reachable at the same addresses, and perhaps
some subset of those can provide personal histories?

HTH,
--Bob

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:28:13PM -0400, Clay Shirky wrote:
> 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' 
> 
> 
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