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It looks like this Group started out on Yahoo Clubs, which opened in 1998, or maybe from eGroups.com, which Yahoo acquired in 2001. As many will know around the end of 2019 Yahoo decided to increase their popularity by effectively shutting down the Groups, and reducing them to minimal functions. Following the success of this marketing tactic they then shut down all groups later on in 2020. Yahoo's clear grasp of the market they served had already been shown when they introduced a major upgrade?in September 2010. Such was the success of this improved version that it was formally abandoned in January 2011. Many here will remember this event. At the end of 2019 the whole forum was transferred over to Groups.io successfully incorporating almost all of the previous Yahoo data, although in a somewhat different structure which did cause some confusion for a while. Since then all has been calm. At least, I have been calm.

The heading "Are we the worlds smallest group?" is from the first message, dated 2000-04-30, so that's when the group started - I would not expect to see anything dated earlier. Just click on the Home button to see the monthly activity figures from the beginning.

But note: I have occasionally received small batches of empty emails dated 1970-01-01. At that time there were a small bunch of interconnected computers in the USA, linked to about six here in the UK, and to a few sonar sensors under the North Atlantic that were monitoring subsea geology - or was it submarine movements? Anyway, how they predicted my email address back then, and why it took so long for the messages to reach me remains a mystery. And why send blank messages? I lie awake at night worrying about this.