7/01/97 ClassicCmp FAQ - Part 1

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Sun Jan 6 15:44:20 2002

 I joined late summer of 97. I think I ran across it in comp.sys.cpm. In going
back over my archives I had a giggle at some of the posts.

 One of them was a rant about one particular spammer by Sellam that he
labelled "Son of Spamm" and his direct action solution.

Lawrence
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> On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> > Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > > With so much OT stuff going on, this FAQ might be interesting reading for
> > > > some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
> sake
> > > > of curiosity, who has been on the list the longest? I joined sometime
> > > > around June 5, 1997.
>
> Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
> subscribed thus:
>
> From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
> To: listproc_at_u.washington.edu
> Reply-To: pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com
> Status: OR
>
> subscribe CLASSICCMP pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com
>
> And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
>
> (signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
>
> It was a fairly busy list even then.
>
> > Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the listserver? I found
> > out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
> > something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
> > also active on that newsgroup at that time.
>
> I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
> either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then
> were mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*,
> uk.telecom, rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the now-dead
> alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York



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