Bob Noel wrote:
In article MD1Hf.547923$084.126821@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Um, hmmm. Just dawned on me that perhaps they didn't exist? Hey,
folks, was Usenet here (as we know it now) in '94? I jumped in
around '98-ish.

yep. rec.aviation existed and was split into the current groups prior
to 1994. I don't remember the exact year.

The reorg happened in 1992. Just FYI, the archive of all postings to
news.announce.newgroups that pertain to that reorg are archived at isc.org
he

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.an...aviation-reorg