The hotrod@dixie.com Archives

The [email protected] Archives

These are archives of the old [email protected] mailing list. I found them at a gopher site: http://www-ece.rutgers.edu/gopher/ftp/pub/HOTROD/ . They were in Unix .Z compressed format, and all were corrupted, probably from ASCII mode ftp or gopher transfers. I ran them through fixgz and uncompress to restore them back to ASCII, then compressed them again in zip format, which is a little more portable.

The old hotrod list was fully moderated; each message was approved and/or edited by jgd before forwarding to the list. It had the highest signal to noise ratio of any list I've ever been on. jgd took the list at dixie.com down when he moved from Atlanta to a hick town in Tennessee with no internet service; fep took the list over as [email protected], where it never quite seemed to recover from the transplant; nobody seems to have figured out quite why.

If you download the archives and read through them, you'll likely find lots of neat stuff you didn't already know. Bear in mind this was 1992-1995; some of the stuff that's common knowledge nowadays came from here. My saved messages irom back then became the core of my 'Database From Hell" which lets me look like I know a lot more than I really do. [grin]