From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 22:15:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E406516A400 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC13C13C4A3 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F9846D3D; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:52:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:52:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Ted Mittelstaedt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070301214852.Q98688@fledge.watson.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Explaining FreeBSD features X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:15:47 -0000 On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > And I can tell you that absolutely nothing that I have EVER read here or on > USENET has EVER held a candle to the power and majesty of the flames I used > to read a decade ago the old WWIV network. (that software is available > http://wwiv.sourceforge.net/ if you are interested) If you are put off by > the tone of what you see here, you would become catatonic if you read 5 > minutes of that. Those flamers were so good that they could cause temporary > blindness to their victims. Ted, As an apparent ex-WWIV user, you might be amused by this: http://www.watson.org/~robert/star-lit/wwiv/ (ex-WWIV BBS Sysop from the early 1990's) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge