On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:55:53 -0500, Cheryl >
wrote:

>On 12/19/2012 11:44 PM, sf wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:10:18 -0700, Christine Dabney
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I don't remember seeing much bickering or flaming back when I
>>> started.. Most of the conversation was about cooking/food/eating
>>> and the occasional disagreement was a generally civilized
>>> discussion about the subject, and not the persons.
>>
>> That's because trouble makers were in college and would have lost
>> their internet access if they tried it back then.
>>
>I've always wondered how people other than college students discovered
>usenet that long ago. I only discovered it doing some research for work
>in 2001. How did you find it?

In the beginning several ISPs supported usenet, it was on their tool
bar.