Jonathan Cook wrote:

There were several years of flyfishing newsgroup before ROFF,
and I still remember the day you showed up :-)

The Google archive is spotty at best. According to Google I didn't post
anything to Usenet until a Sept. 1990 post to rec.music.gdead and nothing
to rec.outdoors.fishing or alt.fishing until August of 1992. Both of
which are not true. The roff archive may be somewhat complete, as you say
roff is a relatively recent addition to Usenet, but I wouldn't trust the
Google archive for complete info before 1994.

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Ken Fortenberry