The founding voices: pioneers who endured Built

1985-2011 (26 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 67 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 11,131 posts (2003-2011)

The longevity headline. A 1985 net.music.gdead charter poster (jackson@curium.dec) resolved across ten address aliases - through mindspring, earthlink, ussr.com, and finally seth@sethjackson.net - into one identity spanning 1985 to 2011 with 11,198 messages, 11,131 of them in rec.music.gdead. A genesis-era originator who became one of the single most prolific voices in the group's entire history. Registry-flagged top-contributor.

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1985-2006 (21 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 2 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 10 posts (2004-2006)

A 1985 net.music.gdead poster (mfs@mhuxr.uucp) traced by display name across a full address change to hotmail and excite, spanning twenty-one years into rec.music.gdead.

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1986-2006 (20 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 2 posts (1986)
• rec.music.gdead 13 posts (1992-2006)

The 'kludge' handle carried from kludge@gitpyr.uucp (1986) through NASA Langley (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov) to kludge@panix.com - one identity, twenty years, thirteen rec.music.gdead messages in the resolved trace.

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1985-2003 (18 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 3 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 1 post (2003)

From bernie@allegra.uucp (1985) to bbildman@hiwaay.net - a founding-era voice resolved across an eighteen-year span into the later group.

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1985-1993 (8 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 17 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 7 posts (1993)

A 1985 charter poster resolved across three aliases (jeff@qubix.uucp, jdb@qubix.uucp, jbulf@balsa.berkeley.edu), continuing into rec.music.gdead through 1993.

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1986-1993 (7 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 7 posts (1986)
• rec.music.gdead 20 posts (1992-1993)

From pete@valid.uucp (1986) to phz@cadence.com - twenty rec.music.gdead messages across a seven-year resolved span.

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1985-1992 (7 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 21 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 1 post (1992)

A 1985 net.music.gdead poster (john@fritz.uucp) resolved to gilbert@mdd.comm.mot.com, spanning into the later group. Registry-flagged top-contributor.

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1985-1992 (7 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 11 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 1 post (1992)

Resolved across the San Diego supercomputer-center hosts (ricko@sdcc12.uucp, ricko@sdcc13.uucp) to ricko@cs.ucsd.edu, continuing into rec.music.gdead.

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1985-1992 (7 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 2 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 3 posts (1992)

From warren@pluto.uucp (1985) to warren@nysernet.org - a founding voice with three rec.music.gdead messages across a seven-year resolved span.

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1985-1989 (4 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 39 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 2 posts (1989)

The man who ran the creation poll and posted the charter. rcd@opus.uucp resolved to rcd@ico.isc.com, continuing into rec.music.gdead. His founding documents are the centerpiece of the genesis-artifacts exhibit; here he is as an enduring poster. Registry-flagged top-contributor.

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1985-1987 (2 years)

By newsgroup

• net.music.gdead 19 posts (1985)
• rec.music.gdead 1 post (1987)

A 1985 net.music.gdead charter poster (zben@umd5.uucp) who carried into rec.music.gdead. The single identity that survived even the strict exact-handle trace, before alias resolution surfaced the other ten. Registry-flagged top-contributor.

Work-area path: _notable/genesis-pioneers.json