On 1/29/2014 11:48 AM, wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:

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You have no idea what you are talking about. Usenet hadn't "been around
for years and years" like you claim. Where's your proof?

"Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It was
developed from the general purpose UUCP dial-up network architecture."

"Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems
still in widespread use."

"It was originally built on the "poor man's ARPANET," employing UUCP as
its transport protocol to offer mail and file transfers, as well as
announcements through the newly developed news software such as A News."

"Usenet was connected to ARPANET through UC Berkeley which had
connections to both Usenet and ARPANET."

"By 1983, the number of UUCP hosts had grown to 550, nearly doubling to
940 in 1984."

"Since the Internet boom of the 1990s, almost all Usenet distribution is
over NNTP."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

Or you can find the same thing at:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node256.html
http://www.giganews.com/usenet-history/origins.html

Among other places.


Gee, you can cut and paste. But none of these references discuss
anything about the programs on ARPANET which led these programs.

And the Berkley link to ARPANET occurred very early and is what made
Usenet viable. Many of those using earlier versions started their own
NNTP servers (before NNTP there was no real standardization - mainly
email and telnet).

Usenet didn't just appear out of nowhere, although the articles seem to
indicate it did. It was the result of several years of experimentation
by people all over the country (and to a limited extent, around the world).

But then trolls will claim anything, even without proof.

Self declared experts at everything hate it when it is pointed out to
them they are wrong.


Yea, you really do hate being shown you are wrong.

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