----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org>
> You'd ask a question of someone in Australia, and you generally had an > answer within 3-4 days. > > Which led, in part, to the old meme "never underestimate the bandwidth > of a shipment of magtapes". "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magtape, hurtling down the highway." -- Andy S Tanenbaum CS prof in NL, creator of Minix, and for 20 years, my favorite US politics pundit. The original quote, IIRC, was talking about Henry Spencer at UT Zoology, who got Usenet that way for a while. I could tell you for sure, but Google never released the DejaNews corpus as they promised... 30 years ago. Cheers, -- jr "don't be evil" a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
