On 10 Oct 2009 13:17:30 GMT, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin) wrote:
>
>Should you wish to form your own opinion in regard to the
>early days of The Fort, you could do worse than to review
>the messages posted to it at that time, at least some of
>which are archived in Google Groups.
>
>The index (see the accompanying picture) can be found at
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/about
>
>or, more cautiously, by googling to the first hit for
>
> google groups
>
>and entering "alt.fan.prettyboy" in the [Search Groups]
>box; this latter will take you to a disambiguation page
>which also lists other groups "related" to The Fort. To
>reach a group's index, click first on its name, and then
>on the [About this group] box on the page that comes up.
>
>You will probably have to click through an Adult Content
>Warning page to access the index, but once you are there,
>you need only click on the number at the intersection of
>a year and a month to pull up headers and the first batch
>of messages; scrolling up and down the headers scrolls
>through the messages.
>
>The [Search this group] box, which has been malfunctional
>for years, was, quite concidentally, finally made to work
>(more or less) properly only yesterday.
>
>The first NP post in the archive happens to be the first
>post for February 1998; before that, the group was only
>occasionally and desultorily boy-related, hosting mostly
>get-rich-quick-at-home schemes immediately prior to its
>unprovoked infestation by... well, why not decide who
>did what, and when, for yourself?
>
>
>Ronin
Hey Ronin,
Thanks for the instructive lesson in using Google Groups. Turns out I
was right all along and now there is proof (and instructions) for
everyone to see for themselves.
Thank you!
Doc
NP-f31
|
|