Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: SUSE Reviving Usenet Date: 2 Oct 2021 16:07:10 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <87r1d6114l.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mkFSdYN7ej/pbAJxh5LbgA1qvfHzeN2sCq+swOztvhTxgCzHBz Cancel-Lock: sha1:/y81B5/8cuyuT82G/Sm43we6chE= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com sci.crypt:50304 alt.folklore.computers:219215 On Sat, 02 Oct 2021 10:49:45 -0400, Michael Trew wrote: > On 9/30/2021 7:36 PM, Bob Eager wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:25:46 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:44:05 -0400, Michael Trew wrote: >>>> >>>> On 9/29/2021 10:44 AM, Rich wrote: >>>>> Now we have a problem that few folks younger than X even know of >>>>> Usenet, or if they do, they only know if it as "that place where one >>>>> downloads binaries via NZB files". And with #1 (few ISP's carrying >>>>> it anymore) it is hard to gain new folks joining up to discuss >>>>> anything. >>>> >>>> Ah, but there must be a few stand-outs.. I've been lurking in various >>>> text newsgroups for years, and posting in a few as well. I'm 26 >>>> years old, for the record.. :) >>> >>> I'm reading and posting for 25 years now, which is more than half of >>> my life (is that what you call "Half Life? ;-). >> >> 40 years for me, and that's more than half of mine! > > I'm quite curious who the oldest poster is on this newsgroup.. I don't > mean age, but who's been here the longest. My 40 years is when we started a feed to the UK from the USA. Slow initially, but we ended up being a major provider for a while. A few years later I set up a news server on our VAX/VMS cluster (ANU News anyone?) for those who didn't use UNIX. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org