Oldest post on this group?

"Rex Kerr" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

Oct 4 1999.

Don't have much time or patience for Usenet anymore, though.

RichC

Rex Kerr said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

About June 2002, which sounds about right.

/me raises a glass to those who post no more

Ken, your website lives on in memorial.
Mr. Onanian, was it Claire's comment about your legs? [0]
Luigi, I hope you manage to get on the bike some more come summer. [1]
Eldred, I hope you kept on the bike, or at least kept off the weight.

Gentlepeople, a toast to those no longer present.

[0] Just kidding Claire.
[1] And one of these days I'll track down your address and send you that
wheel + barcons.

--
Dane Buson - [email hidden]
"From empirical experience, your Exchange admin needs to put down the crack
pipe and open a window to disperse the fumes." -- Joe Thompson, ASR

Rich Clark said:

"Rex Kerr" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

Oct 4 1999.

Don't have much time or patience for Usenet anymore, though.

RichC

I don't know about this group in particular but Google has a
conversation I had way back in 1996 about a sand particle hitting the
space shuttle at 150,000 MPH and what might happen. They must have 100's
of Petabytes of stuff stored up by now, but why?
Bill Baka

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:54:51 -0800,

Dane Buson said:

About June 2002, which sounds about right.

/me raises a glass to those who post no more

Here's a hardy, hearty toast of cognac to Eric S. Sande who was the
first person that responded to my post. It was in a thread about
finding stuff on the road. I'd found big gee god on Jackass Mountain.
That was around August 2000 and I was vehemently anti-Critical Mass.

My five years usenet experience to that point had been in groups
where anonymity is valued so I was using the X-NoArchive field and a
ROT13 address until October, 2000.

Times change but Peter, David, Frank, Mike, Mike, Matt, Mark and Bob
are still here. There are others too whose names go way back. I think
I passed Joh Issacs sometime last year for total number of posts.
This year I'm pretty far back in the pack.

http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/reportcard.aspx?tp=14&sd=12/12/2006&ng=rec.bicycles.misc
--
zk

Rex Kerr said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

Dunno, but it was before this group WAS this group (back when it was
ALL just rec.bicycles.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

So basically everything ever posted is on Google or on a government
server somewhere. Isn't 1996 pre-Google? That would indicate they got
their stuff from somewhere else or that big brother has been recording
all along.
Hmmmm????

Google bought DejaNews, which had archives going back further.

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__o Kristian Zoerhoff
_'\(,_ [email hidden]
(_)/ (_)

Bill <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

So basically everything ever posted is on Google or on a government
server somewhere.

You can always add X-No-Archive to the headers for google not to archive
you. Obviously, any secret government Usenet-caches can still save
everything you ever write, but at least it will never appear on google
groups.

(Which may not be desirable if most of the readers of a group are google
users, but you have the reassurance that what you write won't come back to
haunt you. Unless it's the government.)

--
Nodey

Nodey said:

Bill <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

So basically everything ever posted is on Google or on a government
server somewhere.

You can always add X-No-Archive to the headers for google not to archive
you. Obviously, any secret government Usenet-caches can still save
everything you ever write, but at least it will never appear on google
groups.

(Which may not be desirable if most of the readers of a group are google
users, but you have the reassurance that what you write won't come back to
haunt you. Unless it's the government.)

Kind of what I was alluding to, the 'Big Brother' thing that is now
coming all too true since 9/11. Sacramento is in the middle of a big
commotion over the police installing people watching cameras around
town, to 'control crime'. The book '1984' was right on except for the
year, but now the government has the technology. Creepy.
Bill Baka

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:54:51 -0800,

Dane Buson said:

About June 2002, which sounds about right.

/me raises a glass to those who post no more

Here's a hardy, hearty toast of cognac to Eric S. Sande

~clink~

And to David Reutler, and that Floridian fire-fighter guy
from back then.

And, hell, to everybody.

I wouldn't mind chattin' face-to-face with Wayne Pein.
I'll buy the tapas baked oysters con queso, and he can
cover the jug(s) of sangria. Aw, what the heck. I can
be a fair-minded chipper-inner (when I've actually got
money.) The chicks like Marlene and Veloise and Marian
and all the others would be nice to meet & dance with &
trade smiles with, too.

Sagittarian cheers,
Tom

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Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Nodey said:

Bill <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

So basically everything ever posted is on Google or on a government
server somewhere.

You can always add X-No-Archive to the headers for google not to archive
you. Obviously, any secret government Usenet-caches can still save
everything you ever write, but at least it will never appear on google
groups.

(Which may not be desirable if most of the readers of a group are google
users, but you have the reassurance that what you write won't come back to
haunt you. Unless it's the government.)

--
Nodey

Or somebody quotes your entire post without the X-No-Archive header.

Austin

Rex Kerr said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

October 31, 2001, under the nick AustinBoston. I'd been lurking for a
long time before then.

Austin

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:42:34 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Rex Kerr said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

Dunno, but it was before this group WAS this group (back when it was
ALL just rec.bicycles.

Same here, but I did find an article I posted to r.b.m on January 5,
1996.

Did the "Great Split" happen January 1, 1996? For some reason I can't
find any of my postings from earlier than that but it seems to me the
split happened in the early '90s.

The 1/5/96 post was three email addresses ago. It could be my postings
from earlier was via an email address I've long forgotten.

jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3

Bill said:

Nodey said:

Bill <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

So basically everything ever posted is on Google or on a government
server somewhere.

You can always add X-No-Archive to the headers for google not to archive
you. Obviously, any secret government Usenet-caches can still save
everything you ever write, but at least it will never appear on google
groups.

(Which may not be desirable if most of the readers of a group are google
users, but you have the reassurance that what you write won't come back to
haunt you. Unless it's the government.)

Kind of what I was alluding to, the 'Big Brother' thing that is now
coming all too true since 9/11. Sacramento is in the middle of a big
commotion over the police installing people watching cameras around
town, to 'control crime'. The book '1984' was right on except for the
year, but now the government has the technology. Creepy.
Bill Baka

Do these cameras also do "cop watching," or do the tapes seem to
mysteriously disappear when something questionable happens?

Austin

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Don't know for sure, but a quick Google search shows me in a Presta vs.
Schrader debate on Feb 20 1991 in rec.bicycles, before the great split.
Has that one been settled yet? ;-)

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<http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html>

John Everett said:

Did the "Great Split" happen January 1, 1996? For some reason I can't
find any of my postings from earlier than that but it seems to me the
split happened in the early '90s.

The "Great Renaming" took place in the late 80's, if it is that event
to which you are referring.

John Everett said:

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:42:34 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Rex Kerr said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

Me? May 20, 03, the 1201st thread that Google groups has for this
group. on the .tech group I started the 1941st thread.

It's been a long time, and many miles!

Dunno, but it was before this group WAS this group (back when it was
ALL just rec.bicycles.

Same here, but I did find an article I posted to r.b.m on January 5,
1996.

Did the "Great Split" happen January 1, 1996? For some reason I can't
find any of my postings from earlier than that but it seems to me the
split happened in the early '90s.

The 1/5/96 post was three email addresses ago. It could be my postings
from earlier was via an email address I've long forgotten.

jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3

Google's first post to r.b.m was on Tues, Aug 25 1992 11:31 am (don't
know the time zone). Based on the context of that thread, it was in
the first hours (or days) of the split.

Not much has changed; that thread *immediately* went off-topic.

Austin

Quoted message said:

What's your oldest post on this group?

sometime around the time of Spike Bike and Mocsny
--
mac the naïf

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

John Everett said:

Did the "Great Split" happen January 1, 1996? For some reason I can't
find any of my postings from earlier than that but it seems to me the
split happened in the early '90s.

The "Great Renaming" took place in the late 80's, if it is that event
to which you are referring.

That was the renaming of net.bicycle to rec.bicycles as part of the creation of
the Big 7 hierarchies, right? That would then be a separate event from the
Great Split of rec.bicycles into its current component groups.

--

__o Kristian Zoerhoff
_'\(,_ [email hidden]
(_)/ (_)

AustinMN said:

Bill said:

Nodey said:

Bill <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

> So basically everything ever posted is on Google or on a government
> server somewhere.
You can always add X-No-Archive to the headers for google not to archive
you. Obviously, any secret government Usenet-caches can still save
everything you ever write, but at least it will never appear on google
groups.

(Which may not be desirable if most of the readers of a group are google
users, but you have the reassurance that what you write won't come back to
haunt you. Unless it's the government.)

Kind of what I was alluding to, the 'Big Brother' thing that is now
coming all too true since 9/11. Sacramento is in the middle of a big
commotion over the police installing people watching cameras around
town, to 'control crime'. The book '1984' was right on except for the
year, but now the government has the technology. Creepy.
Bill Baka

Do these cameras also do "cop watching," or do the tapes seem to
mysteriously disappear when something questionable happens?

Austin

If the cops are running the cameras, you know the answer.
They showed that they can zoom in really close up for the babes.
Since they can point straight down, the women might not like that
feature too much in the summer when it gets interesting for us guys.
Bill Baka