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Posted by Mark Smith on June 27, 2008, 5:50 pm
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>> We old-timers think of Google Groupers the same way some view AOL
>> users. We read USENET the way the RFC's intended, through a news
>> client like trn or pine (note: I'm being funny, there's no RFC for
>> this). This newfangled web stuff? Shoot you have people who don't
>> know to trim their posts and they top post to boot!
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> I'm older than you, have been on the Internet since BITNET was two
> nodes and I was on YALEVM, and I top post. :) There's no reason not
> to adapt to the way modern software has worked these past ten or
> fifteen years... :)
I was always on arpanet in those days (BSD Unix on various Vaxen) and
remember it was a PIA to send to BITNET using
name%school%bitnet@arparelay.machine. It worked about half the time,
but better than FROM BITNET which succeeded about 10% of the
time. Machine up time was a big thing back then. Some schools just
shut down for the weekend! Daily retries started much later.
Mark L. Smith http://smith.freehosting.net
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