Karla wrote:
>George Dance wrote:
> >Will Dockery wrote:
>> > Peter J Ross wrote:
> > > >tx_max_king <txmxk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > I wouldn't bother. It's probably a distortion of the truth
> > > > > anyway. My earliest posts on RAP go back to 1999.
> > > > > I was positing here during the Marek wars.
>
> > > > The "Marek Wars" can be traced to the mid 1990s, and Marek was posting
> > > > to net.poems in the mid 1980s.
>
> > > Ah, we were wondering recently who, if anyone, carried over from
> > > net.poems to the new rec.arts.poems, so searching for "Merek" should
> > > be interesting:
>
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/net.poems/topics?lnk=srg&hl=en
>
> > I tried just that today, and google reported:
>
> > Your search -  "marek lugowski" - did not match any documents.
> > Your search -  "marek" - did not match any documents.
> > Your search -  author:marek - did not match any documents.
> > Your search -  author:lugowski - did not match any documents.
>
> > Not the first time our Peter's been caught bullshitting about
> > something being in the archives.
>
> It could be that PJR just made a mistake. I recall reading that Marek
> interacted on a poetry group pre-RAP. I've looked for that specific
> information, and have failed thus far. However, Marek does give some
> history to r.a.p., usenet, etc. at this link (his webpage), How Old Is
> Rap, and also talks about Rec.poems.http://users.rcn.com/marek/how-old-is-rap.html
> So perhaps, PJR just remembered it wrongly (rec.poems, not net.poems).

Thanks for passing Marek's link on, Karla... the ongoing Usenet
history is fascinating stuff.

A "rec.poems" doesn't seem to exist as part of the Usenet archives on
Google Groups, which cover the 1980s-present. There is fj.rec.poems:

http://groups.google.com/group/fj.rec.poems/topics?lnk=srg&hl=en

Which was pretty active at one time:

http://groups.google.com/group/fj.rec.poems/about?hl=en

Description Topics about poems.
Language Japanese
Categories Region : Asia >Japan
Access Public - Usenet

I don't know that much about Marek, yet, but it is possible he posted
and interacted with Japanese poets, I suppose.

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