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Thanks - I think - if only for what would be something entirely different for me ;)

Hmm... NNTP wasn't established until 1986. Something tells me you were accessing something else? Were you accessing a network, or was it BBS or did you had access to JANET or some other MOD network?

By 1985 some of us were using IBM XTs, but hey.

Only millionaires, or those with company PCs. Can't have been many about then.

Nice...

I think I know a lurker who'll make use of that post-GG.

You won't get better than news.individual.net (Freie Universität Berlin), for 10 Euros per annum.

I think I first accessed it about 35 years ago on an Amiga B2000 using a port of Tin.

When I was at uni in 87/88 the computer labs were already full of clone XTs and a few genuine PC-ATs.

The Amstrad PC1512 came out in 86 for ~£400 - not that far removed from the price of a Amiga A500 or a Atari 520ST (even if vastly inferior to either :-) )

So does HOH for all its problems... Just select the text you want quoted before you click in the reply box

Like this

Even hoh allows quoting. Just highlight the text of the message before clicking in the reply box. It will then include the highlighted bit as a quote.

(tried a post via it to see how it comes out)

Yes, I was at BT Martlesham from some time in the late 1980s and started discovering usenet and E-Mail back then. That's 33 years plus a bit but 38 does seem to be pushing it a bit! :-)

Back when there was a proper Usenet archive, I found a post of mine from

The initial NNTP RFC is dated 1986, but NNTP is based on what was used before that; see RFC 850.

So what. Usenet precedes TCP/IP by some years.

UUCP dear boy. Look it up.

The company dialled into I think the university of kent. Or maybe Holland.

Something tells me you were

I had a clone around that time. NEC V20 chipset. 20Mbyte hard drive. Good machine.

Thanks Tim. Shared elsewhere.

Nick