Thanks to Chris Murtland, the URL for the outliners.com archive file
is posted over on the other site, where I have commented about it further.

Derek.

--- In outliners-pims@yahoogroups.com, "derekcornishuk"
<100341.2151@...> wrote:
>
> I have just posted a message over on our other site
> [http://www.outlinersoftware.com/] inquiring about the fate of the
> outliners.com archive, a copy of which Chris Murtland received in May.
> Apparently there are difficulties in rendering it usable.
>
> Has anybody heard anything more about this? Do others have copies of
> this file? It would be a pity to lose all those discussions,
> especially as the discussion group has now disappeared from the
> outliners.com website.
>
> It is possible to use Google, first searching for "outliners.com",
> then selecting "Find web pages from the site outliners.com". About
> 19,700 pages come up, and Google allows searching within these results.
>
> Unless I am doing something wrong, however, this last search does not
> seem to me to work very well; many posts about software we have
> discussed in the past (Zoot, ConnectedText, MyInfo) do not come up.
> This suggests that Google cannot substitute for a complete searchable
> archive of our own.
>
> Derek
>