The rec.music.gdead Usenet corpus Held on disk
The recovered Grateful Dead Usenet record - roughly 1.18 million mergeable native messages spanning 1982 to 2014, assembled from eight on-disk lanes.
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. - NetNews CDs (1992-1995) Held on disk
Native golden-age fill drawn from the NetNews CD-ROM spools, preserving full RFC5322 headers. - UsenetArchives fill (1992-2002) Held on disk
A normalized per-message archive covering the golden age, with header cleanup applied. - UTZOO spool (1985-1991) Held on disk
An early native spool from the University of Toronto Zoology tapes, bridging the pre-golden-age years. - net.music.gdead genesis seed (1985-1986) Held on disk
The earliest dedicated-group seed years, before the rec.* rename. - UTZOO bridge (1982-1985) Held on disk
The earliest native bridge lane, joining the A-News genesis to the UTZOO spool. - 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. - 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.
Corpus work area: db/data/usenet