On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 03:42:29 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 8:27:26 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Monday, January 22, 1990 at 10:41:04 PM UTC-10, Colin Manning wrote:
>> > Over the last few weeks the amount of stuff in here has multiplied
>> > several times.
>> >
>> > How about splitting it in two: one for straight recipes and
>> > another for discussions and everything else ?
>> >
>> > - Colin
>> >
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>> Here's a post from 1/22/90. If you're not using Google Groups, this is the
>> only post you'll see. Otherwise, you'll see the whole thread. Most of the
>> posts appear to be from corporations, military, and educational institutions.
>> This tended to keep out the petty whiners. Boy have things changed!
>
>Except, of course, every September when the freshmen got their accounts
>at their University.
>
>Remember when AOL got Usenet access? Every day was like the first day of
>fall semester.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

on my local group we used to dread wading through september - i'd say
that was the one good thing about the advent of FB