On 05/09/2018 02:17 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > From: Seth Morabito > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM > >> As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you >> using? > 1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I used > rn under Ultrix (on a VAX 3600, the staff Ultrix system at LOTS), but soon > switched to Gnews (different from GNUS) under Emacs 18.59 because it saved > messages into an RMail format mailbox file for later access. Once I had that > I > almost never used any of the Unix-y newsreaders. > > (I had to switch to GNUS when Emacs 19 came out, but that's another story.) > >
By 1989 I was using Knews as most of what I did was on real workstations. I am using Thunderbird at the moment but am seriously thinking about going back to Knews. bill
