The rp-ml archives from 1993 to 1995
These are the earliest articles to rp-ml from the time when André Dolenc
originally set up the list in the CS Lab of Helsinki University of
Technology. Unfortunately the original archives were lost, but
most of the posts were salvaged from the email archives of Dr. Marshall
Burns who has been an active member of the list from the beginning.
Dr. Burns' email archives were stored in the Ennex Knowledge
Base, which is now part of the
Fabbers Archive
at the Pennsylvania
State University. I'm very grateful to the university for their
contribution to this archive. Now, it is complete!
Because the emails were not in their original format, but were stored in
an Access database, it was not feasible to construct similar indexes as
we have in the later archives. But again, thanks to Dr. Burns' efforts,
there is a partial threaded index in addition to the simple
chronological index. The archives are split by year and there is also
a complete list of the posts from 1993 to 1995.
Some notes about the contents of this archive:
- Many posts that are related in content were combined into
single database records, which appear in the indices here as
single entries with multiple names of their participants. For
example, the
entry for May 30, 1994
contains posts from Yakov Horenstein and Curt Lang, while the
entry for December 3, 1995 with subject “Color RP Systems”
contains ten posts from ten different people. This constitutes a
kind of intrinsic threading by combining multiple posts into
one.
- This archive includes a few e-mails that are related to the
RP-ML, but are not posts to the mailing list. For example, the
entry for August 15, 1994 with
subject “RP-ML” is an e-mail from Marshall Burns to Ralph
Wachter telling him about the list, while the
entry for October 3, 1994 with
sender RP-ML and no subject given in the index is a
response to a system request for the list of subscribers as of
that date. There are 188 listed.
- The Ennex database does not contain all e-mails posted to
the list, but a selection of them that were determined to be
important. For example, if one compares the final entries here
with the
Majordomo archive for
1995, it is seen that holiday greetings near the end of
December were not included in the database. However, the
first
post by Dr. Burns in August 1994 says there were 122 posts in
the list archive at that time, and it appears that all of them
were saved in the database and are included here.
See also the indices of posts for other years. and
general
information about the RP-ML