On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 22:44:11 +0000, eastender
wrote:

On 2014-11-06 19:50:33 +0000, Graham. said:

Time to dig out your oldest news reader and follow this new
communications medium in real time minus 30 years


I wonder who wrote this:

Beishon, M (1984) Usenet's Pranks and Pragmatism. Hardcopy, 13(8), 20--28

Answer: me.

Sadly I don't think I have a copy, not even a hardcopy (and Hardcopy
was a US magazine of users of Digital Equipment Co computers such as
the Vax and PDP-11, which were the the key Unix machines of the day).

E.
Kinell, it's JR Hartley all over again.

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Graham.

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