Harold Pritchett said:
>
>On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:55:29 -0500 Craig Gjerde said:
>>On some list recently, someone who worked with PLATO at U Illinois back in
>>the 60-70 era (Doug Woolley or similar name) wrote about how he practically
>>invented discussion groups.
>
>I don't know about this.  uunet (the old dial version) was doing news
>for a very long time before most of the other stuff got started.
[...]
 
I thought S. Bellovin was the one who started them.
 
/Nikos