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Or anyone else from that time frame, like Paul Perkins, Gabe, etc. Al

Looking for some old military buds: Jim Hare, Doreen Connelly, Leroy Shelton, or Gary Lettrich. Anyone have an email for these folks Thanks Al

Wasn't that the D-18 that crashed ~ 1982?

Around 1987, give or take a year, "net.rec.skydive" was renamed to its current name. Netnews was getting popular enough, and it had grown without supervision, that a massive reorganization of the was done. Note that the people doing the reorganization (and I forget their names) thought that skydiving did not have enough popular support to have its own news group, and we should use rec.aviation. After I pitched a fit, they relented, and allowed the group.

I did the same thing. Knees couldn't take the occasional "Controlled Crash" of "The Star". It is a shame Paraflight put Mike Fury (sp?) out of business.

What a shame... Same thing happened at Fort Rucker several years earlier. Back in the late 1970's, Campbell, Rucker and Bragg had the most active dropzones. What is going on at Bragg now days? One thing I also recently found out from a JAG lawyer. Skydiving injuries are no longer considered "Line Of Duty".

Matt just sent me this email. Boy, those were the old days.... "Duke News", "Netnews A", "Netnews B", etc, etc. When net news first started, anyone could create any news group. In late 1980 or early 1981, when I was at Bell Labs, the netnews software was installed on many of the systems, and I started net.rec.skydiving. Back then, you usually only saw "netnews" at the Universities, Gov't contractors and some hi-tech firms. The volume of postings was low enough that the news was passed around on many sites via UUCP on 1200 baud modems. There were a handful of jumpers who were posting questions and comments on this group. Unfortunately, every time you would post, you would get a ton of "Why would anyone... yada yada yada" or "I have always wanted to, what does it feel like", or "I want to make a jump, can you comment on dropzone XYZ" As a result, activity on the newsgroup died out until ~1984 when it started getting active again. When I mentioned 3 other jumpers I was being sarcastic. Thanks for digging up the old memories!