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Re: Dark Gray Tanker
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Date: 
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:24:57 GMT
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"Jasper Janssen" <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote ...
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
NETnews, as it were.

Hey hey hey... I *still*  consider NOTES (a.k.a. VAXNotes, later renamed to
be more corporately-correct to VMSNotes, I believe, even though there are
clients for almost every platform used and there are even non-VMS servers)
to be vastly superior to anything found on the Internet.

--
-Steven  "Nothin' But Net!"  http://svore.mindspring.com/
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  Re: Dark Gray Tanker
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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