Warez, Irrational Pessismism, Bermuda Triangle

Sat Jul 13 17:08:54 UTC 2002

According to http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/CUDS8/cud853, the
Usenet group alt.binaries.warez was in existence in 1996 when it was
being deleted from a server, so it was likely founded sometime
before then. Does anyone know where you can find when a Usenet group
was started?

Benjamin Barrett
Tukwila, WA
Gambling, gamboling and more at the Riverside Inn in Tukwila!

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> WAREZ--In the July 13-14 INTERNATIONAL HERLAD TRIBUNE,
> pg. 1, col. 4, a story about internet software pirates
> that's from the NEW YORK TIMES:
>    Many of the pirates say they were motivated less by
> money than by a sense of competition, prestige and the
> entertainment value of distributing the pirated goods,
> which they call "warez."