[NTLK] Age of List

[David Lairson]

I seem to remember the newtontalk mailing list was somewhat active in the 1997-1999 range. 

I was on the list then, with my MP120. I was working IT at a truck manufacturing plant at the time. The Email admin came by my cube one day and asked me what I used my email for. I told him normal help desk stuff and that I was on a mailing list. I turned out because of the list I was getting more email than anyone else in the company...

> On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:34 PM, William James <whjames67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi
> I am not a plank holder on the list, but I can tell you that in the late 1990s (up to 1999), there was very little interaction between Newton users online. Most users were high level users, meaning doctors and researchers in lab coats, at above the rank of Lt.Cmdr in the US Armed Forces, or above the E7 enlisted ranks, depended on your security clearance.  Palm users were messaging back and forth, which was a major security concern back then, we were briefly given Messagepads. We loved them. Then Messagepad went belly up overnight. We actually had a group that tried to hold on, sharing programs, no way to compete with money, and what Apple considered a failed platform, so the message-board went away
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>    On Monday, March 26, 2018, 6:58:26 PM CDT, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> wrote:  
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> This may be a question for Grant or Victor: how old is the Newtontalk list if you include the years that it was Newtontalk.com? Is there an archive of messages pre-2001 or so? I would be curious to see what people were discussing in the 90s.
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