Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:49:28 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features Message-ID: <000901c75ca7$b0640ff0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEMPFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20070301214852.Q98688@fledge.watson.org>
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That is so cool it's unbelievable! Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <advocacy@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:52 PM Subject: RE: Explaining FreeBSD features > > 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 >
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