Old LISTSERV Archives Reveal Purity of Signal Lost to Modern Algorithms

@BrianRoemmele Very good

@BrianRoemmele we lost the plot

BOOM! ITS RAINING AI TRAINING DATA! I just confirmed another amazing C follower and subscriber (thank you) saw my LISTSERV post and said, “hmm, I think I have some data!”. A former webmaster from a long-closed regional ISP saved complete copies of the Majordomo mailing lists they hosted. These are the raw archives with messages, subscriber lists, indexes, and configs from their servers. Everything fits on 18 DVDs spanning the late 1980s through the 2000s. That is roughly 80 to 90 GB of raw early internet conversation data. Thousands of lists and potentially hundreds of thousands of messages. Clean, pre-SEO text from the dial-up era when discussions had real signal and netiquette mattered. This kind of material is disappearing as old ISPs shut down. The webmaster kept the actual running archives instead of letting them vanish. There are 100s of very large Majordomo instances. One list has over 700,000 postings on some very technical subjects. I ran a Majordomo on a UNIX box for a number of years and thought this would be harder to find than LISTSERV. Well I was wrong. I am adding this archive to the university LISTSERV tapes I have been processing. Different source, same era of high-quality conversational internet. You can not find higher protein signal for AI training. And no other AI company can find this stuff. I was told they “ran out of training data”. Well they are asking the wrong folks. If you have old ISP or mailing list backups sitting around, or anything like this, they are worth saving. Contact me, I will make sure it is not forgotten. I will get the disks next week and very excited by what I know will be very unique data. THANK YOU! DEEP GRATITUDE. The real history of the early web is still out there on forgotten media. And AI needs it more than anything else to reach AGI.