Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Origin of sci.physics.relativity Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 21:06:11 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 27 Message-ID: <636732B3.50CF@ix.netcom.com> References: <7dc4f96e-7d6e-4b79-8c6e-c50e32ba4751n@googlegroups.com> <877c37fb-da75-4702-a3a0-f39f4035fb0an@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9b660076e147e8b4da02cebd52b5b9b2"; logging-data="3081121"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+2oRufaudZwdJMsruJIvFXexiUwzicIp4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:AROUWYo52WeTEiJJOE0Rd3L+mZM= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 221105-6, 11/05/2022), Outbound message X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:594844 JanPB wrote: > > On Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 3:30:40 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote: > > On 11/4/22 1:00 PM, JanPB wrote: > > > I've been on this group off and on since its inception (around 1995 > > > IIRC) > > I first stumbled on sci.physics.relativity in 1982 when I joined Bell > > Labs. At that time it was transported via uucp (unix-to-unix copy, over > > dial-up modems at typically 1200 baud). Back then, USENET consisted of > > only a handful of U.S. universities, plus Bell Labs. It has grown since > > :) Apparently even in that very limited audience the relativity > > crackpots had disturbed sci.physics so much that sci.physics.relativity > > was created to quarantine the madness away from sci.physics. > > I joined Usenet in 1985. The way I remember it, sci.physics.relativity did > not exist until mid-90s. Can yous people get your stories straight? sci.physics.relativity the 80's or 90's???? 1982 or 1995? One of yous is WRONG... -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.