[Husker] Personal Data

[Mike Nolan]

> Just our of curiosity, is there any chance of ever seeing older archived 
> messages (before the listserv software was changed in 2004).  I acutally 
> have old digest e-mails as far back as 2001 saved in my e-mail client.  
> I wonder if somebody has some older messages laying around on an old 
> floppy or tape drive somewhere.  It'd be fascinating to see what people 
> would have been saying in the mid 90's! 

The ones that have been relayed to USENET (nebr.sports.unl) are probably 
on Google, but I'm not sure how far back that goes.  While there have 
been some problems with that gateway from time to time, it seems to 
have been working fairly well lately.

I used to have all the posts going back to about 1994, but most of those got 
lost when a disk drive crashed in 2003, and I never got around to porting the 
ones I had salvaged (which probably go back to 2001 or so) over to the 
new list archives in 2004.

Some of the ones from those years were classic, like the messages from people
about where they were when Osborne finally won his first MNC, and the 
HUNDREDS of posts made at 2AM when the polls came out and Osborne had won 
his third and final MNC.

One poster was stationed in Germany and watched the bowl game at 4AM 
while sitting in the living room of a German friend he had made, whooping 
and hollering in a way that must have reinforced Germany's belief about 
how crazy we Americans are.  

But maybe they understood.  My son was studying in Berlin last year during
the World Cup, his reports about how crazy the Germans were going over 
their World Cup team were hilarious, for the semifinal game he said
he could hear the play-by-play just walking down the street because EVERY
RADIO AND TV IN EVERY HOME had it on!

Then there was the post from one of the listers about how he got a
speeding ticket trying to get a copy of USA Today with the list of
letter-of-intent signers in it, only to find a copy of the list, WITH
DETAILED NOTES ON ALL THE PLAYERS, in his email in-box!

However, I think my all-time favorite post came from a sailor serving on
a ship somewhere in the Pacific during the era when I was doing the
net-casts of the games.  For one of the big games they had over 100
sailors sitting around a computer, with guys taking turns reading the
play-by-play in their best Pavelka and Bremser imitations!  
--
Mike Nolan