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Posted by Colin McFadyen on 01/19/07 01:40
In <an50r2pu31dncj1ddo1bkb1ub9hvu7v427@4ax.com> MassiveProng <MassiveProng@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> writes:
>On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:57:03 GMT, Ray S <mail@mail.com> Gave us:
>>MassiveProng wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:07:56 -0800, "Richard C."
>>> <post-age@spamcop.net> Gave us:
>>>
>>>> "MassiveProng" <MassiveProng@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in
>>>> message news:rnntq21sbpteo5aofqpo7o8v3er9c46tkg@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>> No. One DOWNLOADS posts, then reads, dumbass (at least if you have
>>>>> half a brain). ANY of you idiots that actually tried to read as it
>>>>> downloaded were even more stupid that the top postingf twits with
>>>>> their top posted twit mentalities.
>>>> ===============================
>>>> You do not know how a newsreader works......................
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I most certainly do. I RAN a newsserver back in 96.
>>>
>>> I HAD paying customers (called subscribers).
>>>
>>> I bulk DL'd all the groups THEY subscribed to several times a day.
>>>
>>> THEY bulk DL'd them in turn and THEN they read their news OFFLINE
>>> (exactly where the term came from), made their replies OFFLINE, and
>>> THEN they posted their replies in bulk.
>>>
>>> THAT is how anyone with any brains did it back then, so shut the
>>> fuck up RichTARD, you know absofuckinglutely nothing about it or me.
>>>
>>> Stop following me around like a little fucking disease ridden gnat.
>>>
>>> In other words, FUCK OFF, DIPSHIT!
>>
>>Ok, fine then supertard, I'll follow you around. An amazing technoboy as
>>you claim to be and you still download all your news to read it offline?
> No, you retarded fuck. Learn to read! The discussion was about the
>way things got done back then, you clueless, illiterate twit.
"Back then", people did not DL their news articles. They had nowhere
to download them to. Disk space was very minimal and very expensive.
Personal computers often did not even have a hard disk.
People used terminal emulators (like procomm or telix) or dumb terminals
to connect to interactive command line systems that already had the
newsgroup articles on disk.
I'm not talking about 1995. More like 1985-90.
> I peel 10Mb/s off my cable connection, and that is right on the
>hottest inet backbone in the entire world. The western US coastline.
How times have changed. "Back then", most Usenet articles were
propagated between systems using async modems.
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