Re: Wondering about the original Usenet / ARPAnet Gateways

henry@zoo.toronto.edu
Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:24:31 EST

>If what you meant was to ask when ARPAnet DLs (discussion lists) began
>to be gated into the arpa.* newsgroups, someone else will have to
>expand on my answer. It was in the early 80s (maybe around 83?)...

I couldn't supply an exact date without some digging, but note that the
names were fa.*, not arpa.* (fa being "from arpa").

Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry

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