Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
From: Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:08:36 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 20210814090836.3d1e9000@hawk.localdomain>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87r1ewyzgz.fsf@sugarbit.com>
References: <[🔎] YRKJzlIt8KCpe8v6@phare.normalesup.org> <[🔎] eea71e15-d31d-41d9-adea-9cf3b7ad5fdf@polynamaude.com> <[🔎] 12082021194022.3bf7e8a63b46@desktop.copernicus.org.uk> <[🔎] 11d0be07-d3b3-4449-4eee-2859eade7a1d@polynamaude.com> <[🔎] 12082021231354.136efe1ca8da@desktop.copernicus.org.uk> <[🔎] sf4unm$v5i$1@ciao.gmane.io> <[🔎] 20210813164140.5yfpkomsjvid6nq2@randomstring.org> <[🔎] c47b29fd-73ae-d428-9c22-941909c96988@polynamaude.com> <[🔎] 20210813171143.GA4395@tuxteam.de> <[🔎] jwvczqh9kc7.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.user@gnu.org> <[🔎] 20210814062642.GA11671@tuxteam.de> <[🔎] 87r1ewyzgz.fsf@sugarbit.com>

On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 07:37:00 -0500
John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:

> tomas writes:
> > But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it?  
> 
> Yup.  Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph.  Earlier
> yet we used heliograph.  Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but
> worked. And, of course, pigeons.

Don't forget IP over drums, and of course IP over lanterns in church
steeples ("Two if by sea", etc.)

-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Reply to:

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
  - From: Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk>

References:
- All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
  - From: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
- Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
  - From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com>
- Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
  - From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
- Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
  - From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com>
- Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
  - From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
- Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012
  - From: deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org>
- Meta: behavior on list
  - From: Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
- Re: Meta: behavior on list
  - From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com>
- Re: Meta: behavior on list
  - From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
- [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
  - From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
- Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
  - From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
- Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
  - From: John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com>

Prev by Date: Re: [OFFTOPIC] CoCo and oldies (was : 1149 (was: lonk / was: Meta: behavior on list))
Next by Date: Re: HP plat fair with drivers?
Previous by thread: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
Next by thread: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread