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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
   > On 2012-08-07 08:19, Lewis wrote:   
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   >> In message    
   >> Sandman  wrote:   
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   > The 'great debates'   
      
   >> It was a discussion online in the 80's.   
   > [...]   
   >> Some of this was on b-forum, but I think most of it was on a USENET   
   >> group as well.   
      
   > In the eighties there was e-mail, ftp and usenet -- and that was   
   > essentially what you could do with the internet, which was also pretty   
   > much limited to universities and military institutions.   
      
   There was certainly USENET in the 80s.   
      
   > RABT was created at some point in the early nineties (according to the   
   > charter, the announcement that the group 'passed its vote for creation'   
   > was reported on 26 March 1993).   
      
   Right, I never said it was RABT.   
      
   > AFT is a bit older than that,   
      
   It may have been AFT, but I have no idea. For all I know it was in   
   rec.arts.movies out of a discussion of the Bakshi movie. Or maybe it was   
   in talk.bizarre.   
      
   > and the   
   > earliest archived conversations (from November 1992) show evidence of a   
   > group that had existed for some time (say, a couple of years, perhaps   
   > more), but which wasn't terribly active.  Of course Tolkien's work may   
   > have been discussed in other groups prior to the creation of AFT --   
   > actually it is reasonable to presume that such was the case as there   
   > would have had to be a reasonable justification of the creation of the   
   > group.   
      
   Yes, none of my posts from 87-91 ever existed in DejaNews of GoogleGroups.   
      
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