🚀 go-pugleaf

karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM writes:
>
>(I find myself actually agreeing with Randy here... oh no! :-)

    I hope it's not contagious. :-)

>Gerry, responses like yours are why I withdrew from participation from CLOUT 
>in its entirety after being at only a few meetings.

    No it isn't, Karl.  You've never maintained interest in any group
    where you can't be a big fish in a small pond.  Remember, we go
    back a loooong way.

>I believe the point Randy made is that CLOUT (machine in reality?) >CRASHED< 
>because someone tried to FTPMAIL a few tens of megs of code (or worse).

    I didn't argue that at all.  Gee, am I agreeing with Randy too?

>CLOUT is a VOLUNTEER system. 

    And I'm one of the volunteers.  And if I'd had a key to the
    computer room on Sunday, I'd have gone down and restarted clout.

>This is why I made my own arrangements for my home machine, and why I am 
>now going to pay my own money to get a real Internet link (yeah, Ddsw1.MCS.COM 
>is going "live" soon). 

    I knew you had another reason for responding to this thread.  Well,
    not to be outdone, did you know that vpnet now has seven phone
    lines, three for contributing users only?  We now support 1200 and
    2400 baud as well as V.32, V.32bis, PEP and HST.  Also we have not
    one, not two, but THREE Trailblazer lines.

    There, now we're even; except for one thing.  We're talking about
    what we already have.

    End of farting contest.

>I'm not going to get bashed 
>in the head by people like yourself for providing a free service that costs 
>me mucho dollars out of my own disposable income bucket.  

    Oh, now we're on a different subject?

>If someone's going to bash in my head, by Gods I'll at least try to break 
>even on my investment!

    So my providing free news feeds is costing you money?  Am I the
    villan here?

>I've had my share of idiots FTPMAILing things like alt.binaries.pictures.*
>archives, or the MIT "X11" source -- some of them from YOUR system Gerry --
>passing through ddsw1. 

    Three years ago.  Will you ever forget?

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