Hi @art297 Fair enough. Now, I believe you 🙂 Thank you!
@art297 wrote:
@Andygray: A little more digging indicated that they were using BITNET (i.e., Because It's There NET, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET). Email, via BITNET, was available as early as 1981.
I know informal SAS discussion was active on BITNET as early as 1983 since I used it send message from CUNYVM to YALEVM.
LISTSERV didn't start until 1986 and I would not be surprised if SAS-L wasn't one of the first listserv mailing lists.
I wouldn't be surprised the search algorithm for the communities was perhaps miller's paigerank algorithm approved by the pope to our CEO. :)
In case anyone is interested, my last SGF talk had an overview of the various SAS communities / support channels through the years:
See: https://slides.com/allanbowe/find-your-sas-sensei
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