On 2/22/06 10:22 AM, "kee nethery" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > OK I'll bite. > > I started Kagi around 1994 and at that time I had built a processing > system that used PowerMail and AppleScripts and Hypercard on a Mac > IIci to process the register program emails that came in via my > MailShare -> AIMS--> EIMS server on my MacClassic. Not sure when the > first MacScripting posts came through but 2000 sounds really late in > the game. So I'm guessing somewhere between 1994 and 2000. > > Kee Nethery Yep, that is late. I started the AppleScript mailing list while I was still at the Kansas Geological Survey. John Baxter is right that it predated the release of AppleScript because a few of us beta testers wanted to have a way to swap information. I left the KGS in 1993, and I think it was about that time that Andy Williams--the founder of the Frontier list at Dartmouth--and I merged the two lists. I had to get the AppleScript list off of the Sun box at the Survey and he was worried about how little traffic there was on the Frontier list. We combined the two into the MacScripting list. Adam Engst has some of the history here: http://www.tidbits.com/iskm/iskw2html/pt1/ch03/ch03.html#aa13. I suppose the rest of it is buried at the old ScriptWeb site. I see the Dartmouth archives go back to 1999 ( http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/archives/macscrpt.html), but I think I have mail in my MacScripting mailbox, which isn't online at the moment, that goes back to 1991. It doesn't look like Sandra Silcot's archive is functional at the moment, and the Waybackmachine doesn't have archives of those early pages. The copyright dates of Toy Surprise were 1991-1993. Wow, I'd forgotten about PowerMail and the early days of Kagi. That's my pebble tossed in the large internet pond. pf