Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Tue, January 17, 2006 5:03 am, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: <nitpick)USENET has been around since 1980 - NNTP is just a transport protocol for it</nitpick> How was the material in USENET slung around before there was NNTP? UUCP, I guess. Sascha