Actually, I remember punch cards (I learned Fortran using punch-cards) and using teletypes across 110 baud acoustic modems.
My first consulting gig had a PDP-11 that we had to enter the boot sequence on switches, then loaded the bootstrap from paper-tape and finally could load the OS from disk. I'll never forget how impressed I was the first PDP that could boot directly from floppy. I did development on my own "personal" PDP 11/08 in Fortran plus assembler for the tricky bits and then moved the programs over to a PDP 11/23 for production data analysis. Oh, I did my first C programming on those boxes too. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail Late '96 was when I joined my first real email mailing list (other than bulletin boards!) and I was doing Exchange 4.0 then, but I started way before that doing X400 (like Dec AllIn1) and stuff like the Isocor and Retix gateways. Overall in IT I can remember using 8" and 10" floppies in the mid 80s, but I'll stop short of punched tape! I know you go back a fair way in IT too (but not too far of course!) - so what's your most archaic piece of equipment you can remember? I always think of Ed C and his 300-baud acoustic modem. :) -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 August 2010 15:56 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail >From Exchange 5.0 to Exchange 14.1. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail Someone mentioned swinc a few posts ago, but presumably they meant Swynk which I can remember as Peter Bowyer's list when I joined in late '96. Then you'd also include Daniel Chenault, Ed Woodrick, et al. That's a long time in software years! :) -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 August 2010 15:28 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail You were on the old list? And of course, I left off Chris, with his cutting wit. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail I now feel like chopped liver....<sigh> The obviously unimportant Andy -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 7:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail We'd need Andy, Andy, Ed, and Cameron. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 7:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail ::swinc flashback:: -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 5:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail That's how I roll -----Original Message----- From: Missy Koslosky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail I just re-joined today. Blackstone made me do it. -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help with unsolicited mail We never knew you were lurking! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families ----- Original Message ----- From: Missy Koslosky <[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Thu Aug 05 16:09:29 2010 Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail ;) Miss me? -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail Missy? On THIS mailing list? Wow. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Missy Koslosky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail I can't be the only one who finds it ironic that a former employee of Partnership for Strong Families is a whack job. -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail It was a C level employee who was terminated by the BOD, he has no job other than to do this to try and get his job back, methinks waiting him out won't work. -----Original Message----- From: Carol Fee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with unsolicited mail How about just letting it go for a bit and see if he gets tired of this. I'd be a little nervous about what else he might do, if you frustrate this. CFee -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Help with unsolicited mail We have an ex employee that is sending messages to essentially the whole company. These messages are causing some moral issues and need to stop. We have a transport rule (E2K7) to reroute them but have been advised this person is going to open a new account to continue. Does anyone have any info, Legal or other, that we can use to put a halt to this? TIA John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families
