Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:49:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arne Steinkamm <arne@Steinkamm.COM> To: pechter@lakewood.com Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, cah@lakewood.com Subject: Re: UUCP (important clarification) Message-ID: <199710071249.OAA25378@oldman.steinkamm.com> In-Reply-To: <199710071133.HAA05901@i4got.lakewood.com> from "Bill Pechter" at Oct 7, 97 07:33:03 am
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> It comes from the days of 1200 baud news feeds. There are many of us > who were looked at as gods because we were the keepers of the newsfeed > at work and could grant enlightenment to people with home PC's by slipping > them a feed without the management knowing. > > My wife first ran across me while attempting to weasel a feed out of > Concurrent Computer to her home BBS and 3b2/300. > > Them was the good old days. 2400 baud news feeds, contents, no spam. > Them bits travelled up hill to the news spool both ways at 2400 baud, son. > And we didn't have none of those graphic screens. We used rn and B-news > like you was supposed to. 8-) After throwing away notes B-News 2.11.19 was one of the most stable news software I ever saw :-) I remember the day we sat around a table and looked on the first 2400 baud modem we ever saw... It was a better time... no spam but many many GOOD news .//. Arme -- Arne Steinkamm | Mail (MIME): Arne@Steinkamm.COM IRC: Arne Tel.: +49.89.299.756 | URL: http://WWW.Steinkamm.COM/ NIC-Handle: AS306 Robert-Koch-Str. 4 | "There's coffee in that nebula" D-80538 Muenchen | Cptn. Kathryn Janeway, ST:VOY - The Cloud
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