I found a google group that was around in the early days of the net. Yes, the internet was around in the 80's just not very accessable(around mabye 1,000 people knew/had access. The internet actually started as, a project by the government in '63 but, enough about history).

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.movies.sw/threads?start=270&order=recent

It's funny reading some of the articles. Some highlights:

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Originally posted in Removing newsgroups
net.movies.sw
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This group was originally created when "The Empire Strikes Back" was
released (I believe), and was intended to keep all the discussions
out of net.movies. Nothing has been posted to net.movies.sw in
many, many months that was not also posted to net.movies. There
seems little reason to support this group until a new Star Wars
epic comes out (years), and we can recreate the group at that time,
should the net last so long.

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Originally posted in rotj and tesb videocassettes wanted
i feel a tiny (but not too much) sorry for you. criminal action out on the
open public with disregard for the law makes a strong legal case against you.
and doing it in a newsgroup which LucasFilm folks must surely read takes
a whole bunch of GAUL. (perhaps you could go for the insanity defense?)

normally i would just let the other comments stand, but in this case i feel
it is important for USENET folks to strongly condemn your action.
legal stuff aside, your type of request does harm to the net. USENET
can be the forum for the exchange of useful information, and a place to
relax and hang out. but using it for shady reasons is one way to ruin
it for others.

chongo <do i get free tickets to SW-1 for this?> /\**/\