> I'm not sure how you would look it up. The list pre-dates the > (woefully inadiquate) list archive at Yahoo. Julia would know > for sure, but I'll guess it was somewhere around August, 1995.
Some time after I joined the list, I sent in requests for the list digests from before I joined to the listserv. I kept them, as well as all email I received from the list after I joined. I sent those files in to Jeroen a while back, in the hopes that he would be able to throw together a complete web-based digest of the early list -- a project that fell through, for obvious reasons.
I still have zip files containing digests from the early days, from April 15, 1996 to March 1998 -- which reminds me that I need to get around to making them available on a website one of these days.
This is the first digest I got, which suggests the list got its first post on April 15, 1996:
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BRIN-L Digest 1
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: your mail
by Stewart Blandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2) Re: your mail
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:03:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Stewart Blandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Stefan,
Could you please tell me more about GURPS Uplift. I've never heard about this. I assume it's a role playing game of some kind. There seems to be a source of information on the Uplift universe. Did David Brin write this information or is it speculations by other authors?
> There's some discrepancy here. Startide Rising seems to state > that the Milky Way is Galaxy One.
I just recently reread Startide Rising and did not get the impression the Brin was locating it anywhere yet. It is in Brightness that a definitive answer is give (if I can find the page no. I forward it to you)
Stewart
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:39:36 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In a message dated 96-04-15 16:08:13 EDT, you write:
> Could you please tell me more about GURPS Uplift. I've never > heard about this.
GURPS is a role-playing system published by Steve Jackson Games (http://www.io.com/sjgames).
GURPS Uplift was a "worldbook" that let you roleplay in the Uplift universe. It's out of print, and probably will stay that way unless I have time to update it. And people ask for it . . .
> I assume it's a role playing game of some kind. There seems > to be a source of information on the Uplift universe.
Oooh yeah. Jam-packed. And some stuff got left out!
> Did David Brin write this > information or is it speculations by other authors?
It's either derived from the books, supplied by Dave via notes, or made up by me (and some friends) and given a stamp of approval. (The Jophur/Treakie of Brightness Reef owe some to the "Jophur construction kit" rules in the game book, which is fine by me!)
--Stefan
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