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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 21 16:02:29 2018
    Anything still for sale?

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Aug 21 19:06:23 2018
    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    Anything still for sale?

    After 27 years? Probably not.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 21 16:14:51 2018
    Well google wasn’t a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Aug 21 19:24:04 2018
    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    Well google wasn=E2=80=99t a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    This is Usenet. Usenet has been around since 1983. "Google Groups" is a cheesy interface to Usenet which attempts to make it look like a proprietary Google facility when in fact Google has done more to damage Usenet than anything else. This group has been around since the Great Renaming of 1987
    and there are a lot of old postings in the database. Do not expect people
    who posted decades ago to still be on Usenet.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Andy Valencia@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Tue Aug 21 17:06:20 2018
    [email protected] (Scott Dorsey) writes:
    This is Usenet. Usenet has been around since 1983. "Google Groups" is a cheesy interface to Usenet which attempts to make it look like a proprietary Google facility when in fact Google has done more to damage Usenet than anything else.

    On a more factual basis, there was an archiving of Usenet called Dejanews, which Google bought. I believe a lot of the older content is based upon
    those old data sets.

    Andy

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  • From Bob Eager@21:1/5 to oliverhenryc on Wed Aug 22 00:18:41 2018
    On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:14:51 -0700, oliverhenryc wrote:

    Well google wasn’t a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    I was using it in 1983, so I think you are wrong. Google took it over
    (and ruined it) much later.

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to Bob Eager on Tue Aug 21 20:54:06 2018
    On 08/21/2018 08:18 PM, Bob Eager wrote:
    On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:14:51 -0700, oliverhenryc wrote:

    Well google wasn’t a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    I was using it in 1983, so I think you are wrong. Google took it over
    (and ruined it) much later.


    I was using it in 1980. :-)

    bill

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  • From Phillip Helbig (undress to reply@21:1/5 to Dorsey on Wed Aug 22 07:01:56 2018
    In article <pli6uk$qjc$[email protected]>, [email protected] (Scott
    Dorsey) writes:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    Well google wasn't a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    This is Usenet. Usenet has been around since 1983. "Google Groups" is a cheesy interface to Usenet which attempts to make it look like a proprietary Google facility when in fact Google has done more to damage Usenet than anything else.

    Right.

    This group has been around since the Great Renaming of 1987
    and there are a lot of old postings in the database. Do not expect people who posted decades ago to still be on Usenet.

    Some of us are. :-)

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 22 08:39:34 2018
    On 08/22/2018 03:01 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
    In article <pli6uk$qjc$[email protected]>, [email protected] (Scott
    Dorsey) writes:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    Well google wasn't a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    This is Usenet. Usenet has been around since 1983. "Google Groups" is a
    cheesy interface to Usenet which attempts to make it look like a proprietary >> Google facility when in fact Google has done more to damage Usenet than
    anything else.

    Right.

    This group has been around since the Great Renaming of 1987
    and there are a lot of old postings in the database. Do not expect people >> who posted decades ago to still be on Usenet.

    Some of us are. :-)


    As am I. :-)

    bill

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  • From William Pechter@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Aug 22 19:06:54 2018
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Bill Gunshannon <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 08/21/2018 08:18 PM, Bob Eager wrote:
    On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:14:51 -0700, oliverhenryc wrote:

    Well google wasn’t a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    I was using it in 1983, so I think you are wrong. Google took it over
    (and ruined it) much later.


    I was using it in 1980. :-)

    bill


    Some of us took sysadmin jobs to make sure we could run the Usenet
    connections to our companies 8-).

    Only thing better than Usenet in my opinion is Vax Notes.

    Bill

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  • From William Pechter@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Aug 22 19:05:34 2018
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Bill Gunshannon <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 08/22/2018 03:01 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
    In article <pli6uk$qjc$[email protected]>, [email protected] (Scott
    Dorsey) writes:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    Well google wasn't a thing back then so I think the date is wrong

    This is Usenet. Usenet has been around since 1983. "Google Groups" is a >>> cheesy interface to Usenet which attempts to make it look like a proprietary
    Google facility when in fact Google has done more to damage Usenet than
    anything else.

    Right.

    This group has been around since the Great Renaming of 1987
    and there are a lot of old postings in the database. Do not expect people >>> who posted decades ago to still be on Usenet.

    Some of us are. :-)


    As am I. :-)

    bill

    Sounds like a lot of us here. More in alt.folklore.computers where I'm
    the "kid" of the group.

    I'll be gone from Usenet when they remove this keyboard from my cold dead hands.

    Usenet at home since I could get it running on a 68k, 8086 running Xenix
    and later on FreeBSD and Linux.

    Ah the fun of building Bnews and rn... and later Cnews and trn.


    Bill

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