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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> writes:
> It definitely happened, I knew the guy who made the tapes.  It was a
> government agency that didn't want any live connections between their
> computers and the outside.  The tapes probably slowed things down by a
> few days but in that era it wasn't a big deal.

similar to tapes I was getting for VMSHARE computer conferencing from
TYMSAHRE (from aug1976), i've mentioned the biggest problem I had was
with IBM lawyers afraid that IBM employees would be contaminated by
customer information ... VMSHARE archive
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare

but the pagesat (one-way satellite broadcast receive-only) USENET feed
that I did the unix & ms/dos drivers for their receive-only modem
... which was purely one-way and wouldn't be "live". pc needed to have
16550 UART
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16550_UART

recent ref:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#51 usenet history, was 1958 Crisis in education

in the late 70 & early 80s, I had been blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from
just about the beginning until sometime mid=80s). Folklore is that when
corporate executive committee was told about online computer
conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.

One of the outcomes was official computer conferencing application
(recipients could choose between mailing list type of operation or
usenet "server" type of operation) and corporate officially sanctioned
and moderated newsgroups.

bitnet was corporate sponsored university network using similar
technology that was used for internal network (originated at cambridge
science center).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET

the original bitnet listserv was done 1984 ... effectively, just the
mailing list part of the internal IBM application (TOOLSRUN)

somebody that had spent sabbatical from IBM france at the science cneter
... then is transferred to Paris and tasked with doing EARN (bitnet in
europe) then sent me this email ... looking for online/network-oriented
applications.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320

the current (earn/bitnet) listserv was then done in Paris in 1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2010/08/the_joy_of_listservs.html

internal network posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
bitnet posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
science center posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech

total topic drift, the listserv slate article for some reason references
this article by James Fallows
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/on-todays-hot-media-stories-sherrod-journolist/60210/

who happened to have written numerous articles about Boyd and the
military reform movement ... Boyd posts & web URLs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html

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