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 1RzE0r-0008LG-Mm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:09:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15724E068E; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242D9E068E for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5EA1B4004 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:08:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.24 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.24 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.231, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PpBI-ug6nH0O for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 093F864C5D for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RzDzW-0003u4-HJ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:08:18 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-186-174.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.186.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:08:18 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-186-174.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:08:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:08:07 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> <1971113.3a2zZ3o5ps@localhost> <4F3FA512.3060508@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-186-174.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4F3FA512.3060508@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 259d14a9-44fb-4d3b-9477-b81e91c04a4b X-Archives-Hash: 30f3934638a735cde20515a63a20f3de On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: > Sounds like the internet could be switched off. So, next question, how > easy would it be to get it going again? Hours? Days? Weeks? My guess is that the old farts that read this list could have their old dialup bulletin boards back on line in a day. Probably on the original hardware gathering dust in the attic :p