Bob Agnew wrote:
P.S. Sorry, my bad. A lot of things have changed since I started on the
Arpanet in 1967. I'm pretty sure the rules on the Arpanet prohibited using
newsgroups that way.



Yep, it was a lot different back then. Even when I got into it in the
80's. The signal-to-noise ratio was much higher. Only a handful of
newsgroups...no trolls...no spam...not even any www...sigh...