How do we account for sf-lovers-request being the one of the first (if not
THE first) mailing list to use -request as the place to send subscription
requests? I remember joining that list long before 1993, perhaps as early
as 1988 or 1985. The -request address has been known to be where you talk
to something that helps you, be it animal vegetable or mineral, for at least
that long.
As early as 1990 I personally had software running (with human backup) on
a -request address on a UUCP equipped link with a small little Interactive
Unix (version 2.0.2!) for a small private mailing list of GEnie subscribers.
Andy
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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 10:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rich Kulawiec
Subject: Re: Finding A Listowner
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:54:26 -0400 Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But it's clearly been understood for well over a decade that one can
>expect to find an agent of *some* kind -- either human or software -- at
>that address,
No, it's not clearly been understood for well over a decade at all. For
one thing, over a decade ago there was exactly one mailing list manager
available, LISTSERV, and it did not sit at -request. Your Honour, I'm
afraid the first use of -request for the command address dates back to
somewhere around 93.
