newsgroup fa, net, etc.

[arpavax:mark]

From sdcarl!rusty Mon May 11 09:00:58 1981
To: ucbvax^mark
Subject: newsgroup fa, net, etc.

Won't we need to change the .ngfile also? Also is ALL an acceptable newsgroup
on the left side of the dot such that ALL.ALL will catch everything?


Rusty is right (or is that "Rusty is Wright"?) - we have ALL in our .ngfile
so I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL certainly does.

Mark

I plan to make the change on Tuesday unless something horrible happens.

[sam...@msn.com]

okay, but I bet something horrible happens.

~Mark

[Benjamin]

This is so cool this is the oldest Usenet article in the Google Groups
Archive I has a very big changes of being the oldest one in archived in
the world.

[daniel...@gmail.com]

Apparently nothing too horrible happened after they changed the .ngfile
because we're still pecking out our little newsgroup messages all over
the world 24 years later.

[pbsof...@yahoo.com]

Gosh I hope not....

btw these new 300baud modems are lightening fast, huh?
But you need 256kb of system ram to use them, my box only has
128kb, darn.

[Chad Devine]

I just got one of those new 524 megabyte hard drives. I plan on filling
it up with a tons of text files later! Woohoo!

[gene...@gmail.com]

I wonder if something horrible happened.

[floy...@gmail.com]

I'm here, where's the bitches?

[jbs...@gmail.com]

> I plan to make the change on Tuesday unless something horrible
happens.

To late.

[kid...@gmail.com]

[nber...@gmail.com]

Just thought I would get in on history and reply to the first newsgroup
post cached in google.

[simon.b...@gmail.com]

Can't believe I'm replying to the first usenet post ever!

Does this make me the first replyer ever?

Simon Bouchard
http://www.latitudezero.org

[logi...@yahoo.com]

Is this really the oldest article in the Google archive?

[ezio.fe...@gmail.com]

Hi,
Sorry for the long time to reply...
Put ALL.ALL.ALL in the .ngfile and the dog can get in.
Best Regards
Me

[donavo...@gmail.com]

[brian...@gmail.com]

Mark,
Yes, the .ngfile needs to be fixed and maybe we should use .net instead
of .ALL, talk to the guys and let me know what you think.
By the way, my friggin 8-track just went out in my pinto so i think i'm
going to pick me up one of those new Casset Tape decks. Those things
are outta sight, I hear Rick James has one! He's my hero, anyway get
back to me soon on that other stuff.

Brian

[robert.c...@verizon.net]

I agree.

Rob Carroll

[mota...@gmail.com]

Way too cool; I was only 6................What a long strange trip it
has been.........

[Antonio Varni]

Mark -- usenet somehow got overrun by warez groups. Who's idea was it
to create alt.binaries.* anyway?

[Ramiro.Castro]

Ups, that's really an old thread, isn't it?

[Mahfrot]

I think it is "Rusty is Wright." You are correct.

[jh...@columbus.rr.com]

Well, here it is over 23 years later, and I am still looking for that
change, Mark. :)

Jingo.

[Drew B.]

Yeah, but it's not the oldest one on the net. Look at this site:

http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.Hist/Nethist/0061.html
The earliest post at that site is from May 27, 1980

Lots of other ancient stuff on there too...

Drew
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Hope I didn't do that!
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[rela...@postmaster.co.uk]

YES THIS IS CORRECT MATE

[K.O.N.]

hey this was written a month before i was born!!

[Tim Bruening]

j...@columbus.rr.com wrote on Jan 13, 2005, 3:44 pm:

mark wrote:

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> From sdcarl!rusty Mon May 11 09:00:58 1981
> To: ucbvax^mark
> Subject: newsgroup fa, net, etc.

> Won't we need to change the .ngfile also? Also is ALL an
acceptable
newsgroup
> on the left side of the dot such that ALL.ALL will catch
everything?

> Rusty is right (or is that "Rusty is Wright"?) - we have ALL in our
.ngfile
> so I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL
certainly does.

> Mark

> I plan to make the change on Tuesday unless something horrible
happens.

Well, here it is over 23 years later, and I am still looking for that
change, Mark. :)
How shall we celebrate the 24th anniversary of this post?

[Tim Bruening]

genele...@gmail.com wrote on Jan 9, 2005, at 10:35 pm:

> I wonder if something horrible happened.

Yes: The U.S. getting bogged down in Lebanon, Somalia, and Iraq;
Israel getting bogged down in Lebanon, the
Soviet shootdown of a Korean airplane, the Chernobyl accident, the
Challenger accident, the Iran/Contra scandal,
Saddam's chemical warfare against Kurds and Iranians, the Soviet Coup,
the Waco fisaco, the Oklahoma Federal
Building bombing, the bombings of two U.S. Embassies in Africa, the
U.S. bombing Afghanistan, the Sudan, Iraq,
and Bosnia, the Florida election meltdown, the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
terrorist attacks all over the world, and the December 26th tsunami.

[Tim Bruening]

nbera...@gmail.com wrote on Jan 10, 5:32 am:

> Just thought I would get in on history and reply to the first
newsgroup
> post cached in google.

> mark wrote:
>> From sdcarl!rusty Mon May 11 09:00:58 1981
> > To: ucbvax^mark
> > Subject: newsgroup fa, net, etc.

> > Won't we need to change the .ngfile also? Also is ALL an
> > acceptable
> > newsgroup
> > on the left side of the dot such that ALL.ALL will catch
everything?

> > Rusty is right (or is that "Rusty is Wright"?) - we have ALL in our
> > .ngfile
> > so I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL
> > certainly does.

> Mark

> > I plan to make the change on Tuesday unless something horrible
happens

I've tried to reply to that post in the past, but Google doesn't appear
to have counted i

[Tim Bruening]

> From sdcarl!rusty Mon May 11 09:00:58 1981
> To: ucbvax^mark
> Subject: newsgroup fa, net, etc.

> Won't we need to change the .ngfile also? Also is ALL an
acceptable
newsgroup
> on the left side of the dot such that ALL.ALL will catch
everything?

> Rusty is right (or is that "Rusty is Wright"?) - we have ALL in our
.ngfile
> so I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL
certainly does.

> Mark

> I plan to make the change on Tuesday unless something horrible
happens

Rusty: Iron oxide tea.

In the newsgroup "ALL", is everything on topic

[Tim Bruening]

Rusty: Iron oxide tea.

In the newsgroup "ALL", is everything on topic?
What is an fa group anyway?

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