Usenet newgroups last longer than expected!

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 18 Mar 2010 10:32 am

Here's the announcement that launched the Steel Guitar Forum back in 1996:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.guitar.lap-pedal

Thanks to C# at http://steelguitarmadness.com for finding this historical tidbit.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 18 Mar 2010 10:47 am

Now that is very interesting to me...I have even printed it out for another kind of file.

Regards, Paul

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 18 Mar 2010 12:31 pm

Messages in the Steel Guitar Forum will last much longer than newsgroup messages, so we won't have to keep replying to the same questions over and over.

Guess the first part wasn't necessarily true, and the second part has never been resolved!

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 18 Mar 2010 9:59 pm

Here's another one from the way back machine: alt.guitar.lap-pedal

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 19 Mar 2010 7:40 am

That was certainly a spirited exchange! Paul and I had different views of AOL's quality of service, and I got all riled up about it.

Hopefully I've mellowed a bit since then.

It's too bad that the AOL steel forum can't be recovered. There was a lot of good discussion in that one.

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 19 Mar 2010 8:35 am

Well, look where AOL is today - merged with Netscape and buried under Google, Yahoo, etc. I've got 829 messages in my AIM inbox, all spam.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 19 Mar 2010 9:38 am

I would like me some $19.95/month internet!