The Medway Handyman wrote:

As a relative newbie to this group, I was wondering, how did it all start?

Don't know, but I presume it predates the "correct" mechanism for
creating uk groups:

http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html#guidelines

since we don't have a charter.

Who got it off the ground in the first place?

Don't know... John S was about then, he might...

I understand it pre dates e- groups like Yahoo?

Usenet itself does - by a long margin (predates HTTP). This group looks
like it was created at the end of '94 if google's archive is to be believed:

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-i-y/about?hl=en


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Cheers,

John.

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