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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