This directory archives everything appearing in newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, the newsgroup for developers of interactive fiction.
arc*.tar.Z
and arc*.tgz
files contain collected news articles from 1992 to
the start of 1997, archived by Volker Blasius.
raif-MMM-YYYY.tar.gz files contain articles posted to rec.arts.int-fiction in a given month, archived from DejaNews by Dan Shiovitz.
raifarcYYMM.tgz files contain all the articles posted to rec.arts.int-fiction in a given month, archived by Stephen Granade.
The Frequently Asked Questions of the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, plain text version, maintained by Stephen Griffiths.
The Frequently Asked Questions of the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, HTML version, maintained by Stephen Griffiths.
Jacob's Guide to Giving Constructive Feedback on IF, by Jacob Solomon Weinstein.
Magnus Olsson's collection of selected posts to rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction from late 1996 to August, 2000.
(Almost) all of the articles from the newsgroup archived by Google Groups, from 1996 to Nov 2012. Contains some spam.
(Almost) all of the articles from rec.arts.int-fiction published in 1995, converted to html by Todd Nathan. Unpacks to 3152 files occupying 10.8 MB.
Todd's description of what he did.
A suite of Amiga ARexx scripts to maintain a database of newsgroups articles such as those from rec.arts.int-fiction. Should be easily portable to other Rexx variants. Distributed under the terms of the GPL. Version 1.3, by Miron Schmidt.
Synopsis of a discussion in rec.arts.int-fiction, by Jim Newland.