On 10/30/06, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became Usenet) by
just a few years. I remember this well because I was one of the lucky
few to receive a Usenet feed from Univ of MD (which I piped promptly
into my BBS, heavily modified WWIV).
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> I am not 100% certain, but I believe Usenet predates FidoNet, if you want
> to talk about message boards and their equivalents. Blogging, however, is a
> different animal.
>
Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became U
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:20 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
> I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom.
> She asked me what it was. I told her people had been doing it for years
> before it ever became "blogging" on BBS's through fidonet, etc.
>
I had a similar conversation
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:20:35AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
} On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote:
} > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
} > > > Anyone remember FidoNET?
} > >
} > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
}
} I just had a conv
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
>
> > > Anyone remember FidoNET?
> >
> > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom.
She asked me w
Dmitri Minaev wrote:
On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Walters wrote:
>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are
still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.*
newsgroups. For some years, I used t
On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Walters wrote:
>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are
still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.*
newsgroups. For some years, I used to run such gate (based
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Play on words, "holding it to one self" and "holding views". Point being
> that not everyone is using Debian for the same reason and the rabidness that
> some of the radical views are presented are quite off-putting. Not everyone
> is rabidly anti-
cothrige wrote:
> I don't really follow you here. How does holding imply not talking?
> Surely you don't make a habit of talking about topics you don't hold
> views on? ;-)
Play on words, "holding it to one self" and "holding views". Point being
that not everyone is using Debian for the same
Steve Lamb wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, an
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris Walters wrote:
Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
>> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering
> if there might
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> cothrige wrote:
> > Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing
> > what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being
> > bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the
> > political or philosophi
On Sunday 29 October 2006 04:01, Steve Lamb wrote:
> cothrige wrote:
> > Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing
> > what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being
> > bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the
> > political or
cothrige wrote:
> Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing
> what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being
> bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the
> political or philosophical nature of GNU or Linux.
Holding? No. Sh
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
> > project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
> > change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
> > MicroSoft Empire, a
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
> > Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> As for the original topic, in a community this large and diverse there
> is bound to be disharmony. The key question is whether
Ron Johnson wrote:
> SSMTP over non-standard ports?
Doesn't much help since it drops back onto the old net. Fido (the tech,
not just the net) is a completely different technology in that it doesn't need
the ether, it isn't unified, it is something that anyone can participate in
and there's re
Mike McCarty wrote:
> If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
> project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
> change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
> MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph
>
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On 10/28/06 19:38, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris Walters wrote:
Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
>> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering
Chris Walters wrote:
>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering
if there might be a growing need for it? Not in terms of spam but in terms of
privacy? Sinc
Bruno Buys wrote:
To be honest, Mike and all others, the hostility in this list was worse
in the past. I felt some improvement in this respect. I don't follow
other linux lists to be able to compare, but in forums certainly there
are competition and hostility, so I don't think debian is a specia
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
>>> project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
>>> change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
>>> MicroSoft Emp
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
later taters
Mmmm, taters
--
Kent
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Kent West wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, an
T.J. Duchene wrote:
<>
>
> I'm going to delibrately make a few comments now, and if everyone gets
> upset, so be it.
<>
Any group of people will end up arguing about stuff. Its the nature of
the beast. Frankly, though most of the arguing is off-topic, the fact
that people here argue is a good th
Mike McCarty wrote:
If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph
of the
T.J. Duchene wrote:
I'd like to start by applauding your effort to spread some oil
on these waters.
What follows is the $0.02 USD worth of commentary of one who
has essentially abandoned contributing in whatever small way he
did to this mail list.
Steve,
I'm sorry if you took my comments the
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:45:34AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to
> see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the
> greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment,
> and the next thing
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:45 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
>
> Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to
> see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the
> greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment,
> and the next thing you g
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:43 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> T.J. Duchene wrote:
> > Granted, several of the new MUAs aka "mail clients" or more precisely
> > "mail user agents" have some very primitive filtering capabilities, but
> > ladies and gentlemen, the most practical mail filtering or sorting is
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