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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: newsgroups vs. mailing lists
Date: 10 Nov 1993 05:55:35 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2bpvon$n84@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1993Nov10.051831.20702@emba.uvm.edu>,
Garrett Wollman <wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu> wrote:
>
>>Yow! I just tried subscribing to the FreeBSD-hackers list for the first
>>time, but it was like turning a fire hose on my mailbox. I got over
>>120 messages since this morning for a total of about 500k. I gotta get
>You think FreeBSD-hackers is bad?
>
>I get:
>
>FreeBSD-{hackers,bugs,questions,tz}@freefall.cdrom.com
[.... whine whine whine...]
>...and probably some others I've forgotten by now. Today when I came
>in at 1:00 to read my mail, I had 200 messages in my mailbox!
WIMPS!
WHY BACK WHEN I WAS LEARNING ABOUT COMPUTERS, WE GOT
OVER 500 MESSAGES AN *HOUR*, AND WE LOVED IT! AND WE
WERE THANKFUL WE GOT THEM!
AND, TOO BOOT, WE DIDN'T HAVE LOWER CASE LETTERS! IN FACT,
WE DIDN'T HAVE *ANY* LETTERS. ALL WE HAD WERE 1'S AND
0'S AND SOMETIMES WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THOSE.
I RECEIVED AN ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT ONCE FILLED WITH NOTHING
BUT THE LETTER O. AND WE *LOVED* IT! AND WE WERE THANKFUL
THAT WE COULD DO IT!!!
Young whippersnapper wimps these days with your "oooh what
a nice mail shell", and "oooh, I like to use my favorite text
editor to write my mail."
Pshahh. Learn some REAL computer stuff.
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
P.s Insert :-) liberally for the humorously challenged.
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