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Re: list and usenet



On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:21:06AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:52:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> >
> >>Baron Christophe wrote:
> >>
> >>>What is usenet?
> >>
> >>Mike McCarty writes:
> >>
> >>>A collection of open post groups.
> >>
> >>Actually, it's the original peer to peer network.
> 
> Hardly "the original". Just like the rest of the internet,
> it grew out of the DARPA net.
> 
> >
> >hi John,
> >several people in a discussion amongst some Free software folks had the
> >same idea when the recent supreme court ruling was announced. We said
> 
> Which decision is this? What country? If USA, which State or was it
> the USA Supreme Court?
The US Supreme Court. google for 'Grokster'. Checkout the greplaw web site 
> 
> >I dont understand the supreme court, they are powned!
> 
> I've not seen that word "powned" before.
> 
> Mike
Its origial useage is to a remotely control computer in a bot
network,IIRC.
Cheers,
Kev
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