Are the SGI newsgroups archived?
ftp://ftp.brl.mil/info-iris/. Archives of the SGI newsgroups from 1988 (when there was only comp.sys.sgi) to the present are at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.sgi/. Archives of comp.sys.mips from 1993 to the present are nearby in ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.mips/. Archives of the SGI newsgroups, from 1988 to the present, comp.sys.mips and several other groups are at http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html. They may be SEARCHED with any WWW client (no built-in WAIS support or WAIS proxy needed) or native WAIS client. Archives of the SGI newsgroups from 1988 to the present are at comp.sys.sgi”>http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=comp.sys.sgi&DBS=2&maxhits=25 They may be SEARCHED with any WWW client. Thanks to these services, just posting something goes a long way toward making it available to everyone, even after it expires. Always post a summary of the answers to a question you ask!
