The files misc.* are the archives of the unmoderated comp.protocols.kermit.misc newsgroup, broken up into chunks of approximately 1MB each. Until some time in 1997 we said they were "complete, unexpurgated" but now that the volume of spams, get-rich-quick schemes, and pornography have begun to overwhelm the Kermit-related messages, these are edited out. Disk space costs money. The filenames are misc.yyyymmdd-yyyymmdd, which give the date of the first and last message in each file.