About the Newsgroups Archive Prior to 2025 category

This category contains the archive of conversations from the INA’s prior services - Google Groups and AOL.

This category is not for posting of current topics or for replies to old topics. It is here to preserve the contents of those earlier discussions. It is searchable, and the contents will automatically appear as related to current topics.

The people posting on Google were not consistently identified in the email headers and as a result some of the posting here are attributed to “system”, some to “userNN”, and some to a made-up username. The data load was not able to match up old and new usernames, so it created “staged” user accounts (fake place holders) for the old postings. Those of us that followed Joe’s reminders are identified in their signature, and in many cases email addresses are available in the user’s “card”. (for that reason, this group will shortly not be open to the public).