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<DIV>In a message dated 3/14/04 1:16:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, tcoates1@s=
io.midco.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue =
2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I was one of the <BR>original members of the f=
irst listserve (I believe it was private <BR>because Tom McNeil was the huma=
n listserve). </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Hi, Tim, and colleagues -</DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, those were the days! I think it was late 1987 and our CAUT l=
ist soon outgrew the capacity of the relatively primitive e-mail software on=
our mainframe computer (!) at State University of New York, Fredonia. =
Not sure how 'private' the list was then, but we soon moved to the more mod=
ern and user-friendly hardware and software at Brigham Young University.&nbs=
p; I think that would have been in 1988, 1989 at the latest. And surel=
y everything we've said on this list has been 'public' ever since then.</DIV=
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<DIV>I will go on record as in favor of the simplicity of keeping the list '=
self-moderating' just for simplicity's sake. Seems to work OK for the =
most part.</DIV></DIV>
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TSIZE="16"></FONT><FONT lang=0 face="Lucida Handwriting" color=#0000=
00 size=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="11">- Tom McNeil -</FONT><FONT lang=
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ILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="14">iano </FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Castellar colo=
r=#008080 size=5 FAMILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="16">R</FONT><FONT lang=0 f=
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