[Bigbang-user] Fwd: Fwd: Re: SF-lovers discussion list

[Sebastian Benthall]

Very cool! thanks for sharing!

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Niels ten Oever <niels at article19.org>
wrote:

>
> just saw this gem underneath on ietf at ietf.org, this will probably make
> all you mailinglist nerds rejoice :)
>
> also:
>
> http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2012-March/002102.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~n.,
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: SF-lovers discussion list
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:51:25 -0800
> From: Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net>
> Reply-To: dcrocker at bbiw.net
> Organization: Brandenburg InternetWorking
> To: Vint Cerf <vint at google.com>, IETF-Discussion list <ietf at ietf.org>
>
> On 12/18/2016 3:45 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> > does anyone on this list recall when and who set up this list? My
> > recollection is that it was one of the earliest mailing lists after
> > email was developed by Ray Tomlinson et al.
>
>
> Arguably, Jon Postel's distribution of RFC announcements was the earlist
> 'mailing list', but it was a one-way, multicasting mechanism.
>
> I believe the usual credit for first 'discussion' mailing list is to
> Msggroup, mostly operated by Stefferud, for discussing the use of email.
>   Like Jon's effort, it initially required an almost manual process with
> sndmsg and interactive, real-time response to receive-side server issues.
>
> I think Header-People was next, for discussing email technical issues.
>
> SF-Lovers was probably the first non-technical (if not, non-geek...)
> list.  But I am not remembering the details of its operation (who, when,
> where, etc.)
>
> d/
>
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>
>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net
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