Looking at the digests you linked '80-'84. Does anybody still use .arpa domains for their email? > Lou Berger <mailto:lberger@xxxxxxxx> > 19 December 2016 at 00:20 > And that together with google leads to an archive: > > http://keithlynch.net/sfl/ > > crazy... > > Ben Yalow <mailto:ybmcu@xxxxxxxxx> > 19 December 2016 at 00:07 > At 06:45 PM 12/18/2016 -0500, Vint Cerf wrote: > >> does anyone on this list recall when and who set up this list? My >> recollection is that it was one of the earliest mailing lists after >> email was developed by Ray Tomlinson et al. > > It was set up in the fall of 1979 at MIT-AI. I don't remember who set > it up. > > The first message in the digest was time stamped 15 SEP 1979 2216-PDT > > > >> v > > Ben > > >> -- >> New postal address: >> Google >> 1875 Explorer Street, 10th Floor >> Reston, VA 20190 > > > ----- > Ben Yalow ybmcu@xxxxxxxxx > Vint Cerf <mailto:vint@xxxxxxxxxx> > 18 December 2016 at 23:45 > > does anyone on this list recall when and who set up this list? My > recollection is that it was one of the earliest mailing lists after > email was developed by Ray Tomlinson et al. > > v > > -- > New postal address: > Google > 1875 Explorer Street, 10th Floor > Reston, VA 20190 -- Christian de Larrinaga FBCS, CITP, ------------------------- @ FirstHand ------------------------- +44 7989 386778 cdel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------