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RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I canrelease this thing
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:48:51 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I canrelease this thing
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Joe Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>>> The fact that both you and OAU use strange (humerous) names for the
> >>>> cygwn-talk list, and have both always used pine running on a computer
> >>>> in that network...
> >>>
> >>> Huh? *Everyone* on this list uses a strange name for it. You should
> >>> see what conundrums DaveK comes up with (a new one for every post).
> >>
> >> Actually I did repeat one once.
> >>
> >> But fortunately that was in 1927, well before the invention of
> >> computers or the internet, so nobody noticed.
> >
> > What, you mean there was a time when mailing lists weren't archived?
> > Gasp!
> > Igor
>
> Archiving was really expensive back in the old days... just six months
> worth of mail could easily occupy four or five pigeon lofts and require
> several dozen kilos of birdseed every day.
Hmm, I believe you're mixing your metafors here. While the networking
protocol back then was "IP over carrier pigeon", pigeons weren't really
used for storage (today's equivalent would be creating a network loop to
store your data -- a needless waste). Data storage was really
accomplished by either engraving on stone (for really persistent storage)
or via arrays of abaci (for random-access temporary data)...
Igor
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