Re: COMP: Early History of Iris Talk


On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, wmoores wrote:

>
>
> On 24 Nov 01, at 13:45, dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, wmoores wrote:
> >
> > > Back in January of 1996, I remember being contacted by a HIPS group via
> > > e-mail concerning an e-mail HIPS Robin.  Since it was not archived (or I
> > > don't know how to get to an archive), I cannot put my finger on who
> > > started it, but I remember somebody in MA getting it 'airborne.'
> >
> > I think it was Tom Tadfor Little who did this for Iris-List in 1996.
> > Then when Tom withdrew JIJones started Iris-talk which I was really
> > thankful for.
> >
>    Diana, the HIPS email robin came before iris-l and is not archived as far
> as I know.  When iris-l came out, the HIPS email robin dissolved.  I
> don't remember the two having anything in common except for the fact
> that some of the membership of the HIPS group migrated to iris-l.
>    Walter Moores    Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8

This is possible because when I started with iris-l it was already
functioning as a list so I might have missed the HIPS group.
-- 

Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
SIGNA, Iris-talk,



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