Subj : Re: puzzle To : comp.programming From : mwojcik Date : Fri Jul 15 2005 05:36 pm In article <3jpo8qFr9cu5U1@individual.net>, blmblm@myrealbox.com writes: > In article <1121343478.738610.306570@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, > wrote: > > >However, I've been posting and reading in all probability far > >longer than you punks, > > Maybe, maybe not. Hard to say if you don't provide some specifics > (such as an approximate date when you discovered Usenet). The earliest post I could find is 4921@pucc.Princeton.EDU, made on 11 April 1988. That means he's been posting longer than *this* punk, but perhaps not "far longer", though that's a subjective matter. The difference is about 18% at this point. Certainly some of the other punks have been around longer than that; there are plenty who've been participating since before the Great Renaming. Whether any of them are regulars on comp.programming I don't know. -- Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@microfocus.com We are subdued to what we work in. (E M Forster) .