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.
 
Someone who never deletes old mail (we know who you are!) might have it.
 
Craig
 
You wrote:
>'nother question: Is there a history of LISTSERV...how it came to be?
>or a history of discussion groups?  I have been looking and not found
>very much...I can find the usual stuff about how the internet got
>started...but not the inception of listserver lists...
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