On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> wrote: > On 20/04/2012 12:35, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> >> Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey: >>> >>> On 19/04/2012 01:28, Larry Martell wrote: >>>> >>>> 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. >>>> You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you. >>>> >>> Oh, that fateful day when AOL joined usenet, and usenet died. >> >> IIRC that wasn't the same day. >> > Was still a case of cause and effect. AOL just added lots of ordinary users. Usenet's history revolves much more around moderated vs. unmoderated issues and the content of alt.binaries.*. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com