Recently, Ray Haddad made the following claim:
"I wrote the section on posting in the earliest version of Zen and the Art of Usenet. More than 25 years ago."
A Google search on [ Ray Haddad Zen Usenet ] turns up many other examples of him making this claim, and a search of newsgroup posts turns up many more.
I thought that he might have confused the name ("Zen and the Art of the Internet" is a well-known document with a section of posting) but he assured me that rthe correct name in "Zen and the Art of Usenet", and that he wrote the section on posting.
No document titled "Zen and the Art of Usenet" appears to have ever existed outside of Ray Haddad's posts and a couple of people who obviously mis0remembered the name of _Zen and the Art of the Internet_
Ray Haddad's oldest archived post is from 1994, which is
14 years ago, not 25.He also makes a claim, supposedly backed up by this alleged document, ("Top posting was the preferred method at the time" that is factually wrong, as can be easily seen by looking at random posts from that time in the archives.
If I am wrong and there exists a "Zen and the Art of Usenet" with you as a contributor, I will be happy to apologize for my flawed research. Just point me at some evidence. I have asked Ray Haddad as have several other people over the years) and he has not produced any evidence that such a document has ecver existed.