According to pRob:
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> > All USENET News is public. Some people use News Software to run local
> > setups, but they are not a part of USENET (as a piece of trivia, USENET
> > predates the INTERNET as most people know it and although I don't have
> > exact dates at hand, it probably predates the APRANET wihich was the
> > private pre-cursor to the INTERNET.)
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> USENET started around 1980 (maybe '79--this was a while ago :) The
1979 is the official start date.
> earliest versions used uucp (and some sites as late as 1994 where still
> using uucp--that's unix to unix copy, by the way.
Actually, there are still a few sites who do not carry everything that
still use UUCP and dial-up lines.
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> I prefer the mailing list format, personally.
>
I find it exclusionary (not deliberately, just by virtue of how it works).
I think a Newsgroup would attract more interested parties.
But this may all be moot. I do not know that there are enough interested
people to even get a group, much less a usable hierarchy. What I would
not want to see is a single group. I would like to see a hierarchy with
maybe groups below it for British classics like Triumph, MG and Healy.
bill
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