D.M.Chapman wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Sad that UKC is closing down..must be the oldest setup in the country.

Pretty sure my first ever post sometime about 1986 went through UKC..


Quite likely.

I've mentioned this here before, but for people who've not seen it:

http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof6/Houlder-History.pdf

Interesting stuff.


Yup. I'm not in there by name, but my company as was, is :-)


green screen VAX, UUCP connection IIRC.

Yep :-)

I took over running the news service when Richard Heskith left - 12 years
ago? I'm about the only active user at UKC now :-( (of course, we aren't
called UKC anymore either...)


Deep sadness. IF I could get a free feed...


Still, giving eternal-september a go - seems to work so far :-)

Darren