Joe Thiemann <jthiemann_at_castleton.com> wrote:
>A private news server is a Bad Thing for those of us sitting at
>work with a firewall inbetween ourselves and the net. I do not think I
>will have much success convincing the firewall admins to allow news
>traffic to go through.
You're behind a firewall that doesn't let you read news? Why do your
admins let you read mail - why, you could read a *virus* by accident! :-)
Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
>Good idea in a way but my days back as a SysOp on my own private Fidonet BBS
>shows these closed areas/news servers to be VERY boring.
I've been on Compuserve since the early 80s, and I tend to like their
style of management. The forum managers tend to rule with a very light
hand, in the style of a good bartender. (Another factor I believe
helped raise the quality of patron was CIS's $/hour fees. :-)
Sam wrote:
>Ok fine. Until I'm able to take over ClassicCmp completely, we can put a
>few issues to a vote.
Huh? "Supporters of democracy deserve to get it, good and hard."
Please, Sam, it's within your ken to set up and administer a mailing
list, and you can even moderate it, which will probably take more
than an hour a day, and people will complain when you don't do it
fast enough. Sound like fun yet? Life being what it is, you'll
probably revert to the "sit back and let the flames die on their own"
approach to list management, which works pretty well, considering
the alternatives.
Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> After all, I've been talking about Weller soldering
>irons, HP LogicDarts (which are far too new to be called classics),
>ASR33's (which, although old, are not computers), etc.
I'm sorry. I had no idea that my questions about the ASR-33 would
be considered off-topic by anyone. My 70s computer experiences
were nearly defined by I/O through these beasts, and they were
certainly a popular interface for DEC and S-100 era computers,
so I thought they were supremely on-topic!
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <
http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 09:39:57 GMT