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Subject: 
Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:50:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, "Tom McDonald" <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> writes:

In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
<snip>
      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

According to the log, the crew abandoned ship right after takeoff.  It must
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          Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:47:54 GMT
   lugnet.build:64             Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:54:33 GMT
   lugnet.build:65             Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:13:44 GMT
   lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj:7    Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:05:26 GMT
   lugnet.admin.general:113    Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:17:19 GMT
    :                           :
    :                           :
   lugnet.loc.us.ca.slo:6      Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:42:53 GMT
   lugnet.storage:28           Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:55:53 GMT
   lugnet.off-topic.fun:46     Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:19:39 GMT
   lugnet.off-topic.fun:47     Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:31:28 GMT
   lugnet.announce:29          Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:58:47 GMT


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 ;-)

Better bring me a bucket.  ;-)

--Todd



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  Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Does that make me the last beta tester? My first post was (URL) Are you going to do anything special? (...) Cool! I'll bring the über-garlic spamcake paté and a case of Stoli ;-) -Tom McD. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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