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 1RzbB8-00087U-Me for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:53:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E782DE0EB5; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25E6E0E91 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FEA1B4014 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.592 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.592 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.583, 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 wj9u_DghZLbh for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52:37 +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 67C496443E for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzb9s-0001gw-P0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:52:32 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:52:32 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:52:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> <1971113.3a2zZ3o5ps@localhost> <4F3FA512.3060508@gmail.com> <20120220161256.GB1375@ns1.bonedaddy.net> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 4de6908d-7500-4b6d-b79c-1970570353a9 X-Archives-Hash: 87099a080559c76331a80d4acf985465 On 2012-02-20, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2012-02-20, Todd Goodman wrote: >>> * walt [120219 15:37]: >>>> 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 >>> >>> Naw, uucp on dialup on a Telebit Trailblazer 9600. ??:-) >> >> It's been a while since I set up a uucp node, but I think I could >> manage it in a couple hours if required. ??To paraphrase Damon Wayans, >> "Homey don't play BBS." ??I think I've got a USR sportster sitting >> around somewhere. ??What I don't have is a POTS line. > > Hey, my family ran a 53-line MajorBBS/Worldgroup setup back in the > day, with between 30-50 consumer hardware modems. (Those v.Everythings > were sweet... 3coms were good, too. Anything Motorola after their 14.4 > model...not so much.) Don't knock the BBS. :) I didn't mean to knock them (though I guess Homey the Clown was always being a bit derogatory when he said that line) -- I just never used them and wouldn't have a clue how to run one [it always seemed like they were a DOS thing, and I was a Unix guy]. Aside from that, they also don't really seem like something analogous to the Internet. They all seemed like "walled gardens" whereas UUCP was a way to do networking between peers. In the days before "The Internet" UUCP was how we transferred files, e-mail, and Usenet postings between hosts. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wonder if there's at anything GOOD on tonight? gmail.com