Re: Times change [was: Claws-mail Address Book Bug?]
On Sunday, 13 March 2022 01:21:57 EDT tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 09:19:52AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 22:04:55 +0000
> >
> > Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:47:57 +1100
> > > Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Charlie,
> > >
> > > >On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 04:09:23 +0800
> > > >
> > > >Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:
> > > >> https://lists-claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
> > > >
> > > > Hello Bret,
> > > >
> > > > I won't send a return receipt, but will just say this
doesn't
> > > > work for me?
> > >
> > > Because it's wrong. It *should* be;
> > > https://lists.claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
> > > with a '.' between lists and claws, not a '-'.
> >
> > Thanks Brad,
> >
> > Discovered that when I looked for the mailing list on the net.
> > I dare not say googled because there is some controversy about
> > that.
>
> Hm. About what: looking up on the net, search engines in general or
> Google in particular?
>
> > Strange, can only assume things have changed, but when I started
> > using
> > Linux, people would say, RTFM or google is your friend. [shrug]
> > Everything changes I suppose.
>
> Again: what do you have in mind: sending someone "go RTFM", doing it
> oneself, google, friendship?
>
> So many unknown unknowns ;-)
>
> But yes, times do change: my first Linux computer had four megabytes
> (no typo!) of RAM and a 30MB disk. X ran on it. Google wasn't even
> around back then.
>
Can you top this game, Tomas, luv em. My first network capable machine
was one of the old tandy grey ghosts, the original Color Computer I'd put
64k of ram into so I could run a micro unix called os9 level one, with
two 720k floppy drives, 20 miles to Clarksburg was still a long distance
call, and a 300 baud modem got me to a login in clarksburg that put me on
the delphi mail server. Ran my phone bill up about $150 a month.
That machine was followed by a coco3 with 2 megs of pageable ram and a 30
meg hard drive.
That machine was joined by a full blown amiga 2000, and eventually a
400mhz k6 running redhat 5.0. No windows machine has survived on this
ppty more than a week before its booting linux, windows has been nuked.
So I've been spoiled by multiuser, multitasking machines since about
1985. Hows that for a "war story" Tomas?
> Cheers
> --
> t
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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