At 10:51 PM 7/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I believe that Bulletin Boards created this convention, WAY prior to
>the existence of UseNet/UUCP (Citadel, the BBS I run, has had a "Bunny
>    Mark, mwillis@nwlink.com

WAY? *Not*.   UseNet (newsgroups) started in 1979, but uucp mail transfer starte
d in 1976.  The original version 2 protocol released by Mike Lesk,David A. Novit
z, and Greg Chesson of AT&T is still in use, but today most people use the newer
 ('83) BNU version.  I was using uucp back in 1977 on the Reed College PDP-11/70
 running UNIX, and there was lots of email just between the 1500 accounts on tha
t single machine. Now I believe that was before any microcomputer based BBSs sta
rted up, and people were already YELLING :)
  Regards,
    Ron Fial