On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday February 26 2003 02:43 pm, David McGlone wrote: > > Does Free Beer and having the list on my server FREE! sound > > appealing? > > > > If free isn't a better deal, then I don't know what would be. > > - -- > > David M. > > Edification Web Solutions > > http://www.edificationweb.com > > Only if you're willin to fully support this application for all > users, without need to be root, > > tom$ man uubp > NAME > uubp - Unix-to-Unix beer protocol > > SYNOPSIS > uubp [-acefghlqy] site > > DESCRIPTION > Uubp allows the user to transfer beer, ale, or other > fermented grain beverages between network sites. Using TCP/IP > (telecommunication protocol for imbibing pilsners), uubp > encodes beer from a local file system into packets suitable for > FTP (fermentation transfer protocol) delivery at a remote IP > site. > > <snip the rest, including examples ;>
Tom: Easy for you broadband types to say, but how effective is it on plain old dialup? (I guess we're talking pph -- pints per hour -- rather than kbs). And since when is free beer OT? Maybe for those wine sipping Mac types, but Linux comes from a strong beer drinking tradition going back to Linus himself. And I've read that some of the UK LUG's have their meetings in pubs. -- cmg
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