Subj : Re: puzzle To : comp.programming From : spinoza1111 Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 07:56 pm Michael Wojcik wrote: > 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. Sounds correct. Prior to that time I participated in IBM VM/CMS networks which converged around that time with the Internet. My first use of email was in 1981. > > 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. > Indeed. But I ain't no spring chicken. > -- > Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@microfocus.com > > We are subdued to what we work in. (E M Forster) .