"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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As a relative newbie to this group, I was wondering, how did it all start?

Who got it off the ground in the first place?

I understand it pre dates e- groups like Yahoo?

Just interested.



I'm assuming it's Usenet that you mean and not the single group uk.d-i-y.
The individual groups are all part of Usenet - some general background info
here http://tldp.org/LDP/nag/node256.html
The FAQ for uk.d-i-y can be found here http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/

Neil