History of misc.handicap

[Steve Bonine]

From a site replaying Usenet with a 30-year delay. Note date. As far
as I am aware, this is the first mention of a newsgroup dedicated to
this topic.

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!deepthot!julian
From: ***@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: net.handicap?
Message-ID: <***@deepthot.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 23:11:55 EST
Article-I.D.: deepthot.154
Posted: Sun Feb 12 23:11:55 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 07:07:02 EST
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
Lines: 15


There are at least three organized bodies concerned with computers and
the handicapped:
1) ACM SIGCAPH
2) an IEEE Computer Soc Tech Committee
3) IFIP WG6.5 (International Message Systems) subgroup on
message systems and the communication impaired.
Questions:
Is there a newsgroup where issues relating to this subject area
belong? If not, is there much interest in starting one?
'Handicaps' includes blindness, deafness, speech impediments, mobility
handicaps, and mental handicaps; not an exhaustive list.
(As a near-deaf person, my own interests are mainly handicaps
interfering with communications.)
Please reply by MAIL if interested.

[High Miles]

Boy do I wish there were currently an all purpose group for handicaps.
Perhaps many creative and resourceful resolutions to common problems
could be shared.

Dorothy

Post by Steve Bonine
From a site replaying Usenet with a 30-year delay. Note date. As far
as I am aware, this is the first mention of a newsgroup dedicated to
this topic.
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!deepthot!julian
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: net.handicap?
Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 23:11:55 EST
Article-I.D.: deepthot.154
Posted: Sun Feb 12 23:11:55 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 07:07:02 EST
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
Lines: 15
There are at least three organized bodies concerned with computers and
1) ACM SIGCAPH
2) an IEEE Computer Soc Tech Committee
3) IFIP WG6.5 (International Message Systems) subgroup on
message systems and the communication impaired.
Is there a newsgroup where issues relating to this subject area
belong? If not, is there much interest in starting one?
'Handicaps' includes blindness, deafness, speech impediments, mobility
handicaps, and mental handicaps; not an exhaustive list.
(As a near-deaf person, my own interests are mainly handicaps
interfering with communications.)
Please reply by MAIL if interested.

[Steve Bonine]

Post by High Miles
Boy do I wish there were currently an all purpose group for handicaps.
Perhaps many creative and resourceful resolutions to common problems
could be shared.
Dorothy

So here's a followup, four months after the original post, in the
general newsgroup for handicaps, wishing for a general newsgroup for
handicaps. I'm sure there's lots of sharing going on, but not here.
RIP misc.handicap; it was a good run.

Post by High Miles

Post by Steve Bonine
From a site replaying Usenet with a 30-year delay. Note date. As far
as I am aware, this is the first mention of a newsgroup dedicated to
this topic.
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!deepthot!julian
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: net.handicap?
Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 23:11:55 EST
Article-I.D.: deepthot.154
Posted: Sun Feb 12 23:11:55 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 07:07:02 EST
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
Lines: 15
There are at least three organized bodies concerned with computers and
1) ACM SIGCAPH
2) an IEEE Computer Soc Tech Committee
3) IFIP WG6.5 (International Message Systems) subgroup on
message systems and the communication impaired.
Is there a newsgroup where issues relating to this subject area
belong? If not, is there much interest in starting one?
'Handicaps' includes blindness, deafness, speech impediments, mobility
handicaps, and mental handicaps; not an exhaustive list.
(As a near-deaf person, my own interests are mainly handicaps
interfering with communications.)
Please reply by MAIL if interested.

[High Miles]

Thanks for the response.
Sorry it's no longer running.

Dorothy

Post by Steve Bonine
So here's a followup, four months after the original post, in the
general newsgroup for handicaps, wishing for a general newsgroup for
handicaps. I'm sure there's lots of sharing going on, but not here.
RIP misc.handicap; it was a good run.

Post by Steve Bonine
From a site replaying Usenet with a 30-year delay. Note date. As far
as I am aware, this is the first mention of a newsgroup dedicated to
this topic.
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!deepthot!julian
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: net.handicap?
Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 23:11:55 EST
Article-I.D.: deepthot.154
Posted: Sun Feb 12 23:11:55 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 07:07:02 EST
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
Lines: 15
There are at least three organized bodies concerned with computers and
1) ACM SIGCAPH
2) an IEEE Computer Soc Tech Committee
3) IFIP WG6.5 (International Message Systems) subgroup on
message systems and the communication impaired.
Is there a newsgroup where issues relating to this subject area
belong? If not, is there much interest in starting one?
'Handicaps' includes blindness, deafness, speech impediments, mobility
handicaps, and mental handicaps; not an exhaustive list.
(As a near-deaf person, my own interests are mainly handicaps
interfering with communications.)
Please reply by MAIL if interested.

[No Body]

Post by Steve Bonine
RIP misc.handicap; it was a good run.

It appears to still be "active" although extremely laconic.