Re: New to the Internet? Try this!

mark@stargate.stargate.com
24 Nov 92 07:35:53 EST (Tue)

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> >Actually, in my opinion one of the key elements in the early growth of
> >Usenet was when Mark Horton started feeding the SF-LOVERS and
> >HUMAN-NETS mailing lists into newsgroups. Those provided a critical
> >mass of traffic, and served as a lure to attract new sites.
>
> It's Marks' fault! He's a witch! Let's burn him!

I'll get you, my pretties! And your little FIDO, too!
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

Seriously, I did indeed feed those two groups into fa.sf-lovers and
fa.human-nets at Berkeley somewhere around late 1980 or early 1981.
It was a one-way gateway - ARPANET into Usenet only, done with recnews,
as I recall.

This did provide some key traffic, but I think it wasn't as important
to the growth of the network as just having lots of visibility - going
around giving talks and the like.

Mark

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