Re: Newsgroup sighted

Jim Varney (jamesv@softcom.net)
Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:15:37 -0800

Alan Pickup wrote:

>I have just noticed that a new newsgroup called
>sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe is available via my Demon ISP :-)

Uh-oh.  Alan saw it first.  That means it's going to decay soon!

Quoting from the newsgroup control message:

From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
Subject: cmsg newgroup sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
Control: newgroup sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org
Message-ID: <890175600.28302@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:00:00 GMT    <--------------
Lines: 48


The good folks at Usenet Control came through for us and created the
newsgroup on March 17, the 40th anniversary of Vanguard 1.

Of course, you all realize I planned for a March 17 creation date from the
very beginning, don't you?  ;)

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Jim Varney     121.398 W, 38.458 N, 8m     Sacramento, Calif.