[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: first news group post

[Lance Simmons]

* Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [040408 18:14]:
> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
>
> > Just curious... I was using the google news group archive to look
> > for my old news postings. Can anyone find one of their >old posts
> > older than  my first post: Date: 1992-04-08 09:23:44 PST 
> 
> Wow.. that's pretty good.  I just barely had email :-) I wonder if
> there are any RBBS archives out there.
> 
> My earliest usenet post was 1996.

Mar 4, 1993.  There's gold in those usenet archives.  Remember when
usenet groups had a low signal to noise ratio, because most of the
people in each group knew lots about whatever the topic was, or else
knew how to defer to others who did?

OB NTLUG content: I recently subscribed to Linux Magazine, and it seems
pretty good.  There's a column called "power tools" that is along the
lines of O'Reilly's _Unix Power Tools_.  This month's column has some
nifty shell tricks.

-- 
Lance Simmons