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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.

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okay, but I bet something horrible happens.

~Mark

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From:  Benjamin - view profile
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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I wonder if something horrible happened.

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I'm here, where's the bitches?

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happens.

To late.

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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Just thought I would get in on history and reply to the first newsgroup

post cached in google.

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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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

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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Is this really the oldest article in the Google archive?

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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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

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

I agree.

Rob Carroll

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

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

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

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newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.

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

Jingo.

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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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YES THIS IS CORRECT MATE

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mark wrote:

newsgroup

.ngfile

certainly does.

happens.