At 2004-06-29T170324+1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Sure, but I was actually just trying to expand on "what's GNU and why
> is it associated with Linux?". And what's the effective difference
> between Google Groups (which used to be called Usenet, I seem to
> remember) and mailing lists anyway?
I realise what you were doing, and it was an adequate job, but my point
was that if the reader really cares about the history (and, thus, the
details), they're best to research it properly. While a summary is
useful to whet the reader's appetite, direct references to authoritative
references are likely to serve everybody better than inaccurate recitals
from memory.
The difference is that you can go and read the original messages, e.g.
early Linux-related messages from Torvalds can be seen at [0] and [1].
Similar historic artifacts are available for other projects, if you have
the time to search them out.
Google Groups is not and never was USENET. Google Groups is a
searchable archive of USENET postings. What currently exists as Google
Groups was never called USENET. It could be argued that what's now
called Google Groups was once called Deja{,News}.
[0]
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[1]
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
-mjg
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