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   From: giles@poetic.com   
      
   On 8/5/2012 4:30 PM, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:02:19 +0200, Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
   >>   
   > [Balrog wings]   
   >>   
   >> Seriuosly, though, it seems that everybody eventually just got fed up   
   >> with that discussion (I've been told that it had been going on at least   
   >> since the eighties, though it obviously didn't hit the on-line fora   
   >> until much later).   
   >   
   > There was Usenet in the 1980s, though I can't recall whether I joined   
   > r.a.b.t that early, or whether it even existed.   
   >   
   I may be misremembering, but I don't think rabt started until 1993.   
      
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