> Leroy - despite having a broken CAPS LOCK - that "bud" is named Jennifer..
> and perhaps she might be able to use some help.
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>
> NTTAWWT.
> How long have you been using Usenet 'admin'? It is not uncommon for people
> use their friends/girlfriends/wife's account to send posts. And the huge
> majority never use their real names.
Actually - since it was Arpanet. You can Google that to find out how
long that is. Hint Leroy, I first read Usenet postings on a TI Silent-700.
What someone wants to use as their account name or if they use someone
else's really isn't germane.. what is - you ASSUMED that because it was
a question about fixing a car the person was a "bud"..
> It's strange that you were unable to tell 'her' how to remove the fan!
Why would I bother - I was calling YOU an a.shole.. not her.
> Well, 'jennifer', a slim 32mm spanner and a hammer. Of course, hit it
> clockwise, as the fan has left hand thread. If 'admin' knew this, I would
> have no doubt he would have said so. Happy now 'admin'?
As has been said before - and I'm sure fairly often to you.. you really
are a nerk Leroy.
Mike Scheer - 02 Nov 2006 19:23 GMT
>> How long have you been using Usenet 'admin'? It is not uncommon for
>> people use their friends/girlfriends/wife's account to send posts.
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> As has been said before - and I'm sure fairly often to you.. you really
> are a nerk Leroy.
usenet groups didn't start on the arpanet; they were originally carried
exclusively over uucp (hence the usenet name). Were they *ever* carried
over the old arpanet? I though that they didn't leave usenet until NNTP
showed up, which was after the arpanet had morphed into the Internet.
I'll see your Silent-700 and raise you an asr33.
spammers_lie@pandora.orbl.org - 02 Nov 2006 20:00 GMT
>>> How long have you been using Usenet 'admin'? It is not uncommon for
>>> people use their friends/girlfriends/wife's account to send posts.
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>showed up, which was after the arpanet had morphed into the Internet.
>I'll see your Silent-700 and raise you an asr33.
Yeppers, one of the major uucp hubs was in my lab. The bean counters
wanted to know how a computer had a $250k per year phone bill.
ksr33 -> vt50
admin - 02 Nov 2006 23:06 GMT
> usenet groups didn't start on the arpanet; they were originally carried
> exclusively over uucp (hence the usenet name). Were they *ever* carried
> over the old arpanet? I though that they didn't leave usenet until NNTP
> showed up, which was after the arpanet had morphed into the Internet.
> I'll see your Silent-700 and raise you an asr33.
Usenet was started in 1979 as a "poor man's Arpanet" by Tom Truscott,
Jim Ellis and Steve Belovin to share information via E-mail and message
"boards" between Duke University and U of North Carolina. It used dialup
connections and UUCP protocol under Berkeley UNIX distributions. I'll
raise you a Silent-300 (which weighed just a bit over 40lbs I believe..
and that was a "portable"..)
Mike Scheer - 03 Nov 2006 00:13 GMT
> Usenet was started in 1979 as a "poor man's Arpanet" by Tom Truscott,
> Jim Ellis and Steve Belovin to share information via E-mail and message
> "boards" between Duke University and U of North Carolina. It used dialup
> connections and UUCP protocol under Berkeley UNIX distributions. I'll
> raise you a Silent-300 (which weighed just a bit over 40lbs I believe..
> and that was a "portable"..)
All well documented and understood, but how does that relate to your
claim that you read news groups on the arpanet?
Mike Scheer - 03 Nov 2006 00:15 GMT
> Usenet was started in 1979 as a "poor man's Arpanet" by Tom Truscott,
> Jim Ellis and Steve Belovin to share information via E-mail and message
> "boards" between Duke University and U of North Carolina. It used dialup
> connections and UUCP protocol under Berkeley UNIX distributions. I'll
> raise you a Silent-300 (which weighed just a bit over 40lbs I believe..
> and that was a "portable"..)
All well documented and understood, but how does that relate to your
reading news groups on the arpanet?
Mike Scheer - 03 Nov 2006 00:16 GMT
> Usenet was started in 1979 as a "poor man's Arpanet" by Tom Truscott,
> Jim Ellis and Steve Belovin to share information via E-mail and message
> "boards" between Duke University and U of North Carolina. It used dialup
> connections and UUCP protocol under Berkeley UNIX distributions. I'll
> raise you a Silent-300 (which weighed just a bit over 40lbs I believe..
> and that was a "portable"..)
All well understood, and even documented, but how does that relate to
your reading news groups on the arpanet?