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From: magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:38:24 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Jul 21 2008 10:38 am

Subject: Re: newsgroup regurgitation

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On Jul 19, 1:25 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:

> "Steven Hirsch" <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:ppKdnZ_OvrTthRzVnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@giganews.com...

> a2...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Boggle! Fido-net still exists?? I just assumed it faded away along with
> > the rise of the the internet.

> AFAIK the international C echo is not on Fido anymore. I get my feed through
> a list serve. BTW Bob Stout just released a version of snippets for embedded
> systems. My stuff from the early days is still on PDNCEE though. Lots of the
> old timers like Jerry Coffin are still around too.

> For a memory jog click on one or all of the following:

> http://www.clipshop.ca/sdn.gif

> http://www.clipshop.ca/polar.gif

> http://www.clipshop.ca/cobalts.gif

> http://www.clipshop.ca/starve.gif

> If we didn't have an academic account it was all we around here back then. I
> can't understand why anyone would kfetch and bemoan receiving a csa2 feed
> though. This is an extremely civilized bunch here and certainly as worthy as
> anything fido ever had IMNSHO.

> Bill

> TNSTAAFL (There's no such think as a free lunch:)

Bill,
your quote there should be TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A
Free Lunch). Robert Heinlein use to use that in several of his science
fiction novels. In fact I think he coined that phrase, but I'm not
100% sure.

Dean

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