On a "rainy day" in October last year, I resuscitated Cyberdog to 
convert some of my oldest mail to Eudora mailbox format (I used 
MailConverter 2.2.4). I thought that might be my oldest Macscrpt 
mail, but apparently I was using Eudora before that. Of course, I 
have messages from 1904, 1928, and 1956, and a few from Walter dated 
1976 (actually 1996) but the oldest legitimate date in my archive is 
January 22, 1995. Fred Terry helped me unsubscribe when I changed 
ISPs in late 1996. My oldest AppleScript is dated February 7, 1994. 
As I remember, it was supposed to delete certain text boxes in 
QuarkXPress based on their contents. Mostly, it just crashed Quark... 
Before joining this list, I remember reading the Quark scripting 
message board on AOL. Seems a lifetime ago.

Tony

>A question for those with gray hair AND (functional) memory cells.
>
>What's the age of the Macscrpt list? and has it always been hosted 
>at Dartmouth? Did Fred Terry start it (why do I think that?) If not, 
>who?
>
>The Archives go back to January, 1999, but I think I've belonged to 
>it longer than that (though I occasionally confuse Macscrpt with the 
>Apple-run lists when I subscribe to both).
>
>Bill Cheeseman, Walter Ian Kaye, John Delacour, Fred Terry, and 
>others (John Baxter?) were certainly active then, as now ... (ok, I 
>threw those in to get their attention and slip past the canned-meat 
>filters...) Others?
>
>   - Brian Johnson, University of Washington, Design Machine Group