On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:22:11 -0700, Banana Banana@Republic wrote:

It looks like Microsoft formed the Microsoft.Public
newsgroups in 1994, which is before any reliable web forum software even
existed and the only other good place was AOL chatroom (?!)

.... or CompuServe, where I was a Sysop before I started posting here...

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John W. Vinson [MVP]