Hi Yuji,

Very good info and thanks.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in message
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Hello Bill,

I did a Google Groups, Advanced Search, for you (you can do one yourself
on
the Google site) and found the following:

Your first post appeared on 7 January 1997 and it requested opinions on a
JWO Pontoon. Since then, you have posted approximately 3160 times. I did
not try to find out when the newsgroup itself began, but it was probably
sometime in the early 1980's.

I doubt if this newsgroup started before that, I can remember when our
first
IBM PC appeared at the office in 1981; it had an 8088 processor (or was it
an 8086?) with 64 Mb of memory and no hard drive. An internet might have
been in use by a few scientists before that but I don't think it became
widely used by the public until much later. I started using the web in
the
early 1990's and I was by no means an early adopter.

Best regards,

Yuji Sakuma

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"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
Hi All,

I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been on
here?

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com