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Rob Evans <rre@mla001.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<5TWe3oTUI7t$EwaG@mla001.demon.co.uk>...
> In message <8ucerv4h21hn67epjc84hpl8p5jcvj39l5@4ax.com>, Colin Ward
> <kaltica@mts.net> writes
> >On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:24:21 +0000, Rob Evans <rre@mla001.demon.co.uk>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>In message <670584bc.0311151102.239b5eed@posting.google.com>,
> >>yyyiiinnnggg@yahoo.com writes
> >>>>
> >>>God must. it was only 1997. Do you remember this is one of your early
> >>>posts? Wasn't Tim Peddyson anno*ying? My point is who are you to tell
> >>>me about rap history?
> >>>
> >>Look deeper grasshopper.  I can't remember when I first posted but I'mm
> >>pretty sure it was way before Antipasto Torinese, way before 1997, and
> >>that Deb was around at that time.  Here endeth the history lesson.
> >
> >     For what it is worth, Google's first report of a
> >posting by "Rob Evans" to r.a.p. did, indeed, occur
> >before 1997:  1996/02/07, to be exact.
> >
> >http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Rob+Evans+group:rec.arts.poems&hl=en&l
> >r=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind&as_minm=5&as_miny81&as_maxd&as_ma
> >xm&as_maxy96&selm=TEesOAAa3wMxEw%2B%24%40mla001.demon.co.uk&rnum=4
> >
> >     Since that post doesn't seem to be introductory in
> >nature, one might presume that you were posting earlier
> >than 1996/02/07 (perhaps under a slightly different name?).
> >As such, you beat me here by at least three months, Rob.
> >
> I followed the link, thanks.  It was interesting in that I was pretty
> sure I was posting well before even that date.  It could be a trick of
> my memory and I might have been simply lurking for longer than I
> thought.  Nevertheless, there do seem to be anomalies - I am almost
> sure, for instance, that my first recorded dog poem was actually my
> third - still, I assume google cannot lie.
>
> Rob
>
1996 was the earliest i found under your name too. now that's besides the point.

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