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Re: Obit - Sir Clive Sinclair, Computing Pioneer [message #411355 is a reply to message #411312]

Tue, 28 September 2021 21:15

Anonymous

Karma:

Originally posted by: Branimir Maksimovic

On 2021-09-27, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:31:23 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 13:55:07 GMT
>> Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Then, snipping is most important?
>>
>> Indeed, there is some art in retaining the minimum useful context.
>> Once upon a time it was common for USENET servers to reject posts that had
>> a poor ratio of new material to quoted material. Of course in those days
>> bandwidth[1] and storage were much more expensive - but human attention span
>> hasn't increased in line with those things so it is still useful to be
>> brief.
>>
>> [1] In the early days of USENET many leaf sites had a 15 minute daily slot
>> to exchange data over a modem line using UUCP - all email, USENET and file
>> transfer (very unpopular with admins) traffic had to fit in that slot.
>
> Ah, the good old days of ftpmail for binaries for home computers.
Yeah I remember using UUCP to exchange news and mail :P
it was somewhat difficult to setup without documentation :P

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		Re: Obit - Sir Clive Sinclair, Computing Pioneer By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Wed, 29 September 2021 01:55
		Re: Obit - Sir Clive Sinclair, Computing Pioneer By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Fri, 24 September 2021 22:39
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