From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 7 05:50:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA23226 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 05:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from oldman.steinkamm.com (arne@OldMan.Steinkamm.COM [194.127.175.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA23214 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 05:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arne@oldman.steinkamm.com) Received: (from arne@localhost) by oldman.steinkamm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25378; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:49:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arne Steinkamm Message-Id: <199710071249.OAA25378@oldman.steinkamm.com> Subject: Re: UUCP (important clarification) To: pechter@lakewood.com Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:49:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, cah@lakewood.com In-Reply-To: <199710071133.HAA05901@i4got.lakewood.com> from "Bill Pechter" at Oct 7, 97 07:33:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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