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other two
weeks by Philip Katz and K.C. Babb.
>For the
next few months there would be days with half a dozen posts and
>then
weeks with nothing, generally followed by a "Is anyone there"
>message.
>
>By March
1991 the list had 24 members, of whom the following 15 had
>posted:
>
>
Alan F. Perry <lcc!devnet.la.locus.com!perry>
>
Cory Carpenter <coryc@sequent.com>
>
Kazuo Yoshizaki <yoshi@hpujisa.yhp.hp.com>
>
Mark SOKOLOWSKI <msdos@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
>
Michael Sands <sands@apple.com>
>
Mike Causer <mike@cis.prime.com>
>
Philip Katz <pkatz@axion.bt.co.uk>
>
Al Kiecker <alan@s5000.rsvl.unisys.com>
>
K.C.Babb <bcstec!tahoma!gsds@uunet.uu.net>
>
Roger Garnett <garnett@theory.tn.cornell.edu>
>
Dave Van Horn <microsoft!davevh@uunet.uu.net>
>
Mike Galos <microsoft!mikegal@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
>
Mark Niedzielski <min@kodak.com>
>
Stuart Shellswell <sshell@icad.com>
>
Tom Watt <watt@osf.org>
>
>
>
>
>At the
start the list was run from one of Alan's computers at home,
>which
connected every few hours to pick up incoming mail and send out
>the earlier
messages. There was a drop out of about a year while
>Alan
worked in Germany and then resumed, still on one of Alan's own
>computers.
Sometime 92/93 the list was moved to Netcom, who ran a
>more-or-less
24 hour a day service, and the traffic picked up so
>that
is was rare to have a day with no posts. Eventually there was
>a problem
with Netcom (I forget what it was) and the list moved to its
>present
home at Best. Last time I asked (a couple of years ago) there
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