How old is this news group?

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

Bill Kiene wrote:
Hi All,

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


You were first seen 05/15/2000

Aliases : Bill Kiene
: Eugene Graham

This might help.

http://netscan.research.microsoft.co...=9%2F30%2F2003

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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


You've been here since about March 8th, 1996.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=gr...5&as_miny=1981
&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=1996&selm=4horec%24l it%40pa.mother.com&rnum=6.

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

Sandy wrote:
Bill Kiene wrote:

Hi All,

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



You were first seen 05/15/2000

Aliases : Bill Kiene
: Eugene Graham

This might help.

http://netscan.research.microsoft.co...=9%2F30%2F2003


and then Charlie Wilson wrote:
"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



You've been here since about March 8th, 1996.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=gr...5&as_miny=1981

&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=1996&selm=4horec%24l it%40pa.mother.com&rnum=6.


Hmmm. Looks like Microsoft is keeping up to their normal standards.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I stand corrected, my search was flawed. Charlie is right, March 8,1996.

Yuji Sakuma

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rw wrote:
Sandy wrote:
Bill Kiene wrote:

Hi All,

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



You were first seen 05/15/2000

Aliases : Bill Kiene
: Eugene Graham

This might help.


http://netscan.research.microsoft.co...=9%2F30%2F2003


and then Charlie Wilson wrote:
"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



You've been here since about March 8th, 1996.


http://groups.google.com/groups?q=gr...5&as_miny=1981


&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=1996&selm=4horec%24l it%40pa.mother.com&rnum=6.


Hmmm. Looks like Microsoft is keeping up to their normal standards.

Seems they didn't start till September 1999.

"The Netscan System provides detailed reports on the activity of Usenet
newsgroups, the authors who participate in them, and the conversation
threads that emerge from their activity. Using the Netscan tool users can
get reports about any newsgroup for any day, week, month, quarter, or year,
since September 1999."

--
Don`t Worry, Be Happy

Sandy
--

E-Mail:-
Website:- http://www.ftscotland.co.uk
IRC:- Sandyb in #rabble uk3.arcnet.vapor.com Port:6667
#Rabble Channel Website:- http://www.ftscotland.co.uk/rabbled
ICQ : 41266150

"rw" wrote...
Sandy wrote:
Bill Kiene wrote:
I was wondering how old this news group is and how long have I been
on here?

You were first seen 05/15/2000

Aliases : Bill Kiene
: Eugene Graham

and then Charlie Wilson wrote:

You've been here since about March 8th, 1996.

Every time a person changes their email address, or just mungs their email addy
a different way, their stats start over again.
--
HTH,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Sandy wrote:

Seems they didn't start till September 1999.

"The Netscan System provides detailed reports on the activity of Usenet
newsgroups, the authors who participate in them, and the conversation
threads that emerge from their activity. Using the Netscan tool users can
get reports about any newsgroup for any day, week, month, quarter, or year,
since September 1999."


So "You were first seen 05/15/2000" has to be calibrated to Microsoft
Time? Didn't Bill Kiene exist before September, 1999? And who the hell
is Eugene Graham? :-)

For my part, I have no problem with Google keeping track of my Usenet
comings and goings. I'm even grateful for their efforts. Microsoft,
however, is another kettle of fish. Wanna bet that they're keeping lists
of people who say nasty things about the Evil Empire?

BTW, there are rumors that Microsoft is thinking of acquiring Google.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in
:

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

================================================== ===========
"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






news.announce.newgroups says the creation date was 5/16/1994. If I
recall, I was one of the 336 users that voted yes.

Scott