> On 11/01/2023 01:28 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:07 PM, Comcast <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Usenet is a relatively ancient system for posting information, messages and > > the like. It was originally phone based relying on dial up modems. It’s now > > internet based. It’s very basic and straightforward. Although you need an > > access app, you don’t have to subscribe to a service like Facebook. It’s > > rather inelegant but old timers embrace it as a computer geek badge of > > honor. > > I resemble that. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet > > I looked up RFC 850, and it dates to 1983, so the transition from UUCP to the > internet is about 40 years old, so it’s not like it’s recent. One could also > say a lot of the same things about email (and yes red4est used to get its > email via dial up uucp and bang path) but it’s not like people tend to > disparage email as something that people used to do over their phones.
A bang path sounds a bit scary, just to get your email. Or maybe it's a bit pleasurable. You're right. > Hmm, the more things change… -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
