[Discuss] rms

[John Abreau]

I took a brief look at the first few digests in the archive, as well as the
READ-ME-FIRST, first-test-message, and announcement files. Found the
archive at

    http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/back.issues/1981-86.volumes.1-5/

JSol posted the first administrivia message to the list.

Geoff Peck (ucbvax!geoff) posted the first test message when the list was
created.

The file vol1.announcement in the 1981-86.volumes.1-5 archive folder
describes Geoff Peck as the "current {telecom,poli-sci}-link coordinator".

The file vol1.READ-ME-FIRST, dated June 13, 1999, explains that the first
few messages were taken from a telephone discussion in the Arpanet list
HUMAN NETS.

In several of the first few digests,JSol describes himself as "The
Moderator".



On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 1:10 PM Rich Braun <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:

> Kent Borg wrote:
>
> > I only remember Pat Townson, so I think it is a pretty good
> > guess that he was the first moderator.
>
> Jsol (Jon Solomon) is yet another of my long-ago housemates. We first knew
> one another at Stevens Tech, before he dropped out to take a staff job at
> Rutgers. (His overly-long stay as guest at the apartment in Cambridge in
> 1983 contributed to the departure of RMS and one of my other housemates, so
> he and I rented elsewhere later.) Rutgers is where the Telecom Digest was
> hosted circa 1982.
>
> Sample archive link: https://iconia.com/TELECOMDigestV2.33.txt. Headers
> suggest it was launched (by jsol) perhaps a year earlier. But I don’t
> remember that history, dig through those archives to see more.
>
> -rich
>
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