(...) Yes they are authentic. If you browse the RTL archives, you'll find many links to them. ROSCO (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
(...) Wow, I had no idea these were still online! I was thinking about this the other day, wondering if someone had kept an archive. Yep, they're the originals. IIRC, in the early days of LDraw.org, there was an archive on the web site. I the site (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)