Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <dog_cow-1268251400@macgui.com>,
D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> Been here since sometime in the second half of 1989, when it was still
>> called comp.sys.apple.  The email address I was using at the time was my
>> first: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu...
>
>Now those must have been the good old days. I don't think that the U of I
>even has a newsfeed anymore. :-(

To make things even more of a blast in the past, they had a system called
Notes (not Lotus Notes, but something homegrown named Notes) with a Usenet
gateway.  I started out accessing the group through that, not knowing there
was a difference between it and Usenet proper.  (That's not much different
than someone from [AOL|Google Groups|some random web forum] confusing that
other system with Usenet.)  Since comp.binaries.apple2 (and its predecessor)
weren't carried on Notes and I wanted to download the software other people
were talking about here, someone ended up pointing me toward rn and other
newsreading tools.  

I still use trn (the threaded successor to rn) for reading news.  It hasn't
been updated in something like 8-10 years, but it gets the job done and I'm
familiar with it.

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