From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 7 09:07:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16655 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tarsier.cv.nrao.edu (juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16650 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 09:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from juphoff@localhost) by tarsier.cv.nrao.edu (8.6.13/$Revision: 2.7 $) id MAA12187; Tue, 7 May 1996 12:06:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 12:06:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199605071606.MAA12187@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> From: Jeff Uphoff To: "matthew c. mead" Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, chat@freebsd.org, pmurphy@nrao.edu Subject: Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev] In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, May 6, 1996 10:39:06 -0400 References: <199605061306.JAA05982@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> <199605061439.KAA04427@neon.Glock.COM> X-Zippy: Do I have a lifestyle yet? X-Mailer: VM 5.95 (beta); GNU Emacs 19.29.1 X-Attribution: Up Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "mcm" == matthew c mead writes: >> Sounds like the linux-kernel list sometimes; I've seen higher valid >> content ratios on IRC channels. mcm> Is it not moderated? Nope. And it's gated to the linux.dev.kernel group on those USENET sites that carry the linux.* hierarchy. mcm> I ran linux for a couple months back when it was .96p8 - mcm> back when you had to build your own distribution. I got sick of mcm> not having a true slip connection and switched to good old 386bsd mcm> 0.0. I actually ran that for over a year before I switched back mcm> to linux when its slip was fairly decent. I didn't find Linux really "useful" until 0.99.10, when SLIP became native. --Up.