From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RzEFS-0002CW-Hr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:24:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F0C7E07B4; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289A0E0AFE for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so6345431lah.40 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:23:28 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of paul.hartman@gmail.com designates 10.112.23.65 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.112.23.65; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of paul.hartman@gmail.com designates 10.112.23.65 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=paul.hartman@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.112.23.65]) by 10.112.23.65 with SMTP id k1mr6353273lbf.77.1329686608252 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:23:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MWUGWNDHNPzmVu7qtPtZF//clmIvTHCj9jbOAhfQ8vY=; b=UMSw7mFOSjLpKeKgzBVOCyI2Uw4EHo70hE2lkowTQrbWAMU2yDoJTHuo7sgcfKknwi tKCwkLeDjrSK0AzvLsamA3mxwpQzM9jl6xFwuWISdcuiF9wn7vV0kqem1bRQ006zMk1t XJn10zAZJojwuAg34lnhDVf0kwDEF0nqiKN1I= Received: by 10.112.23.65 with SMTP id k1mr5313883lbf.77.1329686608201; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:23:28 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.95.141 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:23:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> <1971113.3a2zZ3o5ps@localhost> <4F3FA512.3060508@gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:23:08 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: nJZj3A-cr3mEdD0kP7xRflv4guI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 16b1687a-9100-4a67-81cd-d4197bcb0f19 X-Archives-Hash: 675e2dc4bad203257584a816ac90c7f7 On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, walt wrote: > On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Sounds like the internet could be switched off. =A0So, next question, ho= w >> easy would it be to get it going again? =A0Hours? =A0Days? =A0Weeks? > > My guess is that the old farts that read this list could have their old > dialup bulletin boards back on line in a day. =A0Probably on the original > hardware gathering dust in the attic :p I just need to figure out how to pull the backups off my old QIC-80 tapes so I can run them in dosbox. ;)