Inventory

  • Consolidated body (2003-2014) Held on disk
    The multi-gigabyte native-spool bulk of the decline years; the densest lane, with 2004 alone near 183,000 messages.
    Work-area path: rec.music.gdead.deduped.mbox
  • NetNews CDs (1992-1995) Held on disk
    Native golden-age fill drawn from the NetNews CD-ROM spools, preserving full RFC5322 headers.
    Work-area path: _netnews-cds/rec.music.gdead.netnews.mbox
  • UsenetArchives fill (1992-2002) Held on disk
    A normalized per-message archive covering the golden age, with header cleanup applied.
    Work-area path: _ua-harvest/rec.music.gdead.ua-1992-2002.mbox
  • UTZOO spool (1985-1991) Held on disk
    An early native spool from the University of Toronto Zoology tapes, bridging the pre-golden-age years.
    Work-area path: _utzoo/rec.music.gdead.utzoo.mbox
  • net.music.gdead genesis seed (1985-1986) Held on disk
    The earliest dedicated-group seed years, before the rec.* rename.
    Work-area path: net.music.gdead.mbox
  • UTZOO bridge (1982-1985) Held on disk
    The earliest native bridge lane, joining the A-News genesis to the UTZOO spool.
    Work-area path: _early-gold/net.gdead.early-gold.mbox
  • net.gdead A-News genesis (1982) Held on disk
    The A-News positional genesis of the group - tiny, and the oldest thread in the record.
    Work-area path: _anews-genesis/net.gdead.anews.mbox
  • Google Groups supplement (1992-2002) Held on disk
    A synthetic, un-mergeable volume-and-topic supplement (synthetic IDs, day-granularity dates); a low-fidelity series only, never unioned into native tallies.
    Work-area path: _gg-harvest/rec.music.gdead.gg-1992-2002.mbox

Corpus work area: db/data/usenet

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