🚀 go-pugleaf

Well I am surprised. These groups have survived and even spread.

Although I read them now from Oregon, I recall creating these groups
on a very small backwater of the internet: a few Waffle boards which
occasionally managed to make connect to the rest of the 'net via uucp
protocols.

I forget who created them: Fred or I. Maybe Fred did: he was better
with that sort of thing than I, back in those days. Hmm, come to think
of it, I have forgotten quite a bit of the history of this. Did these
groups first reach the rest of the net via my box
(coldbox.cojones.com), or his (fredbox.cojones.com, later fred.com).

The cojones.com domain still exists but in a rather covert way. It was
hosted from, at the time, the "second-most northern site in the world"
according to John Quarterman at _Matrix_ magazine... and that specific
site (and computer) is now defunct. After cojones quit hosting all
this, fred.com took over. My understanding is that fred.com has also
gone (temporarily I hope) to limbo.

At any rate,  it really is a surprise that they survive. The bushnet
group is a highfalutin' plan I once had to start linking villages via
the net - I never really got it much off the ground. ak.bushnet.thing
was kind of a joke. ak.bushnet.cabal was definitely a joke and seems
not to have survived. 

Actually I think I am surprised that these 'groups escaped our little
domain... and curious as to how that happened. Anyone out there care
to enlighten me, or refresh my faulty memory?

Anyone else out there remember the sequence of events? Bilbo? Fred? 
Hello? Is anyone actually *reading* this prattle?

-Bryan Lockwood
(back on Usenet after too long a hiatus)