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From: Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: Archives are Back
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 20:09:20 +0100
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Hi Mic,

nice to see you.

On 24 Dec 2001, Mic wrote:
> Laura T. <shedragon@lycos.com> wrote in message news:<q0mi1uci43i5h09uvgltnib487mvfspf6s@4ax.com>...
> > Google Groups http://groups.google.com/ goes back as far as 1981 now.
> 
> Can't figure out how old the nwsgrp a.a-a ("ascii-art as we know it")
> exactly is. The moderated group rec.arts.ascii was born on monday 6th
> june 1994, it seems. A.a-a was earlier... when? What newsgroups in the
> google- (former deja-)archives are to be tracked down to spread light
> upon the descent of a.a-a? rec.arts.ascii?
> alt.binaries.pictures.ascii? rec.humor? misc.*? alt.*? bbs.*? big7.*?

Read <2lvpa6$jca@Mercury.mcs.com> (from Jorn Barger in 1994), do a
little research, find <2cgc8e$g5r@Notwerk.mcs.com> (again Jorn)
and learn that a.a-a was born in September 1993. Since some
news-admins were not happy with it's creation it took some time
to travel trough the system, i.e. to become visible on most
servers. So I believe that the start of the archive in Google
(Deja) actually does mark a good starting point: it's the second
Novembver 1993. Depending on your news server you may have been
able to see the group a couple of weeks earlier. 

[linewrapped pic]
Is it just me or are you out of practise? :)

Andreas

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