Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:14:28 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com> To: Bsdguru@aol.com Cc: andy@xecu.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeside Message-ID: <20010525221428.C75972@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <d7.707fb4e.284056ec@aol.com>; from Bsdguru@aol.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:46:36PM -0400 References: <d7.707fb4e.284056ec@aol.com>
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:46:36PM -0400, Bsdguru@aol.com thus sprach: > In a message dated 5/25/01 4:02:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, andy@xecu.net > writes: > > I apologize for the lack of sensitivity or content in my > > post, but am I the only laughing at the email address > > "bsdguru@aol.com"? > > > > Kind of like opensource@microsoft.com....or > > superslut@whitehouse.gov. > > The email equivalent to an oxymoron; you gotta love it. > What a snob! > Actually, when you get 1000 messages a day, AOL mail is nice, > particularly when dialing up, because 1) all the message subjects > are available with no download and 2) they dont clutter my disk > and 3) if i dont feel like getting messages from a list for awhile > I can easily block the domain and I'll never see the messages. I normally dont get more than 500 messages day. My BSD machine checks with the a couple of times/hour for mail, twice per hour to get the lastest Usnet news [ I get only the a subset of comp.unix] and I never have to dial anywhere. > With Eudora it took 15 minutes just to get my mail, particularly > on weekends. So laugh all you want, Im happy with the setup. I can be reading mail while my system is getting mail. If you are a BSDguru why aren't you using BSD so you don't have to do things like that. You ARE posting to the freebsd-isp list. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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