Chyist Dec 7, 1998 K

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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Organization: Lojban Peripheral
Subject: Re: Earliest "free software"
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Eric Raymond scripsit:
>>A key datum, which I've been unable to turn up, would be the date of the earliest news.sources postings.
Doug Yowza scripsit:
>I think Rich Salz created and moderated net.sources.
Net.sources (later comp.sources.misc) was apparently not archived before the Great Renaming of 1987. Mod.sources (later comp.sources.unix) shows archived postings back to at least November 1984.
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