Andrei’s Good Old Times post got me curious enough to look up my first post that MARC archived for the PHP general list. The earliest post I spotted was this, but I

The FSF just announced guidelines for reviewing version 3 of the GPL. To participate in the process, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/. To learn more, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition.

Andrei Zmievski, for the following inspired snippet: "Oh, if you are using a mail reader that screws up message threading, I will hunt you down and stuff you full of Perl internals

Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5. Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7

As with many things written in AppleScript, this never really worked reliably - and as far as I can tell, things haven't really changed much in the intervening 19 years.