These days everybody has disabled the finger port, except on the coke machine.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Thigpen [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 9:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years? And FINGERing each other??? :-) Tony Thigpen Seymour J Metz wrote on 7/20/20 9:20 PM: > IMHO we'd all be better off with Gopher instead of the WWW. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > Mike Schwab [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 8:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years? > > Well, at least he didn't claim to be using Archie, or Veronica. > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 7:20 PM zMan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not gonna sue you, but you realize AltaVista died in 2003, right? You’re >> using Yahoo, whose continued existence is a mystery to all. >> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:52 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You had me convinced, Tony :). I've recently started using "Google", >>> capitalized, to mean Google, but the lower-case verb "google" to mean >>> simply >>> that I searched for something on-line. (By habit I use AltaVista, >>> actually. >>> So I'm an old fart - so sue me.) So when I finally noticed that you were >>> saying "google" and not "Google", I thought maybe you were referring to the >>> internet generally, not Wikipedia specifically. >>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
