Newsgroup fa, net, etc.

newsgroup fa, net, etc. is the oldest archived USENET newsgroup post. It was posted at 10:09 GST by arpavax:mark on May 11, 1981. The message is so old that it can only be accessed through the Google Groups archive. The post is located on the now defunct (after the Great Renaming of 1987) newsgroup net.general , which contains 105 messages posted there from 1981 to 1986. Ironically, the message did not get a reply until 2004, 23 years later.

The Post

From: arpavax:mark - view profile
Date: Mon, May 11 1981 10:09 am

From sdcarl!rusty  Mon May 11 09:00:58 1981
To: ucbvax^mark
Subject: newsgroup fa, net, etc.

Won't we need to change the .ngfile also? Also is ALL an acceptable newsgroup
on the left side of the dot such that ALL.ALL will catch everything?

Rusty is right (or is that "Rusty is Wright"?) - we have ALL in our .ngfile
so I tend to forget this.  ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL certainly does.

Mark

I plan to make the change on Tuesday unless something horrible happens.

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