On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:01:16 -0800, John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:47:07 -0500, Dennis Ferguson
><dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote in
><slrnhepq4r.1hc.dcferguson@akit-ferguson.com>:

>>On 2009-10-31, AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:24:35 -0400, Tony P. <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote:
>>>>You can also try http://www.sprintusers.com/forum
>>>
>>> I'd rather use one or two newsfeeds than have to visit 200 seperate sites.
>>>
>>> What you recommend is a throwback to the 80's, before usenet.
>>
>>?? I'm not sure there were any 80's before usenet. I started
>>reading it in 1982 and I'm pretty sure it was a few years old
>>then.

>Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived
>the idea in 1979.

I see thread drift is still alive and well.