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From: <[email protected]> 81 I don’t and others don’t think this is a bug. If you can come up with an RFC that st ...

82 Mail Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 16:07:47 HKT From: “Olin G. Shivers” <[email protected]> To: UNIX-HATERS Subject: Need your h ...

From: <[email protected]> 83 550 [email protected]... User unknown: Not a bicycle 553 abingdon I refuse to ta ...

84 Mail However, the really irksome thing about this program is the standard vacation message format. From the man page: From: e ...

Apple Computer’s Mail Disaster of 1991 85 For example, before sendmail will accept a message (by returning exit status or sendin ...

86 Mail [insert theme from Dragnet] The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed so as to finger the ...

Apple Computer’s Mail Disaster of 1991 87 user, Mark E. Davis, is on the [email protected] mailing list, to dis- cuss some alterna ...

88 Mail tralia, Britain, France, and all over the U.S. I speculate that the list has at least 200 recipients, and about 25% of t ...

Apple Computer’s Mail Disaster of 1991 89 Are you next? [insert theme from “The Twilight Zone”] just the vax, ma’am, Erik E. Fai ...

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5 Snoozenet............................................................................... Snoozenet I Post, Therefore I Am “Use ...

94 Snoozenet The software came to be called “news,” because the intent was that people (usually graduate students) at most Unix ...

Netnews and Usenet: Anarchy Through Growth 95 Apparently, he attempted to reduce the amount of noise on Lusenet by implementing ...

96 Snoozenet People complain about "lazy or inattentive sysadmins". One look at news.admin and you'll instantly understand why i ...

Newsgroups 97 alt.tv.dinosaurs.barney.die.die.die alt.biff.biff.bork.bork.bork alt.bob-packwood.tongue.tongue.tongue alt.tv.9021 ...

98 Snoozenet net.gods and, less frequently, net.wizards who had exhaustive knowledge of the newgroup’s subject. Net.gods could a ...

Alt.massive.flamage 99 for an administrator to drop those groups. Of course—that was the point! At the time most of Europe was c ...

100 Snoozenet archive names, descriptions, Makefiles, and so on. Alt.sources has become a clone of the moderated groups it sough ...

rn, trn: You Get What You Pay for 101 keep the list private (e.g., by not putting it on the list-of-lists), the list will soon g ...

102 Snoozenet I was just trying to catch up on a few hundred unread messages in a newsgroup using rn. I watch the header pop up, ...