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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> 5. When the beta test went live in late September, there were still only
> about a couple dozen or so volunteers. So even though it was "live and
> running," it wasn't "open arms to all" yet. You can see some of the
> initial excitement here:
>
> http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=1,20
>
> (Obviously, this was before .announce required followups to other
> groups. It wasn't meant as a discussion group.)
>
> The groups became "open arms to all" in a message posted to
> rec.toys.lego on October 4 (which I don't have a handy way to link to)
> but here is something posted very shortly after:
>
> http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=29
>
> and it has the datestamp of:
>
> Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:58:47 GMT
>
> so you might consider that the official "birth" of the newsserver,
> because up until then, it was still officially in beta testing until
> the kinks could be ironed out.
Does that make me the last beta tester? My first post was
http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=28
> > Are you going to do anything special?
>
> I plan to drink myself silly from September 28 to October 4. ;-)
Cool! I'll bring the über-garlic spamcake paté and a case of Stoli ;-)
-Tom McD.
when replying, spamcake is cheaper to grow than soy, so look out!
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| (...) be a decoy, sir. Several of the escape pods have been jett--- Oops...wait...that's the wrong tape. Sorry. OK, here we go: According to the log, there were 167 messages between lugnet.announce:28 and lugnet.announce:29 ... lugnet.announce:28 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Hmm, the actual anniversary is kind of fuzzy, since there were several "beginnings"...here's a bit of history: 1. There was some preliminary research and testing on August 9 with a mock-up newsserver. That was just testing, and it was wiped (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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