On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:52:34PM +0000, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > > 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 >
1989 was a bit before my time, Usenet-wise (I was still hitting the BBS scene at the time), but around '93-94 when I got my first Unix shell account, I recall using nn, but not terribly often (I mean, gopher was _right there_ for the taking!). These days I use slrn from an OpenBSD box. -- Jon Tabor tab...@obsolete.site http://obsolete.site
