Archives of the info-iris mailing list (see below) from 1986 to 1990
  are at ftp://ftp.brl.mil/info-iris/.

  Archives of the SGI newsgroups from 1988 (when there was only
  comp.sys.sgi) to the present are at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.sgi/.
  Archives of comp.sys.mips from 1993 to the present are nearby in
  ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.mips/.

  Archives of the SGI newsgroups, from 1988 to the present,
  comp.sys.mips and several other groups are at
  http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html. They may be
  SEARCHED with any WWW client (no built-in WAIS support or WAIS proxy
  needed) or native WAIS client.

  Archives of the SGI newsgroups from 1988 to the present are at
  comp.sys.sgi&DBS=2&maxhits=25">http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=comp.sys.sgi&DBS=2&maxhits=25
  They may be SEARCHED with any WWW client.

  Thanks to these services, just posting something goes a long way
  toward making it available to everyone, even after it expires.  Always
  post a summary of the answers to a question you ask!