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Re: Dark Gray Tanker
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sun, 23 Jan 2000 02:16:55 GMT
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lpieniazek@^AvoidSpam^novera.com
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:03:10 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> > Do people still even use forums?
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> Larry? Look around this virtual space. What is it you see?
Something non IBMish.
Perhaps, just perhaps, I wasn't talking to you(1), and wasn't talking
about newsgroups(2). Forums are a peculiar, IBM specific thing that
significantly predate the widespread adoption of newsgroups. They were
dying out, relatively speaking, within IBM when I left.
> Exactly.
Not exactly.
1 - unless you just changed your name to Frank, that is.
2 - here's a clue, do you know of a newsgroup named IBMTEXT NITPICK
FORUM?? Note the capitalization and lack of periods in the name. Here's
another clue... do you know what a "conferencing disk" is(3)? Doesn't
SOUND much like "news server" does it?
3 - no reason that you should if you have never worked at IBM, it's
pretty trailing edge technology at this point. But that's not the point.
The point is, I was asking Frank F. a specific question.
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| (...) Never. (...) A newsgroup is a forum. (...) They were essentially an early implementation of news, much as has been developed in a lot of places (various universities had an imp, DEC had one, Xerox PARC probably had one..). Direct precursors to (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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