Re: Help deciding.

Nil wrote:

On 19 Jan 2009, The_Professor <dbid@xxxxxxx> wrote in alt.guitar:

Absolutely true, and I've never denied that. However, usenet is
not the same thing as it was in 1982. Usenet existed before the
internet as well. You used to have to have a protocol like PINE
running in unix to see usenet through bitnet.

Is that the best you can do? The above needs at least 3 more mis-used,
mis-understood, mangled tech buzzwords and/or concepts in order to be
truly hilarious.

You don't find the fact that the idiot called Pine a "protocol"
when it's actually a mail client that serves as a particularly
clunky news reader only in it's post-version-3.90 permutations,
"truly hilarious"?

You don't find the fact that Pine 3.90 wasn't even released until
1994, loooooooooooong after bitnet had essentially bit net dust (pun
intended)... "truly hilarious"?

You don't find the fact that Bitnet was actually an "alternative"
to Usenet in part, and used a completely different protocol
(LISTSERV) to move messages around......... "TRULY hilarious"?

You don't find the fact that Pine could NEVER read messages of any
type off Bitnet without some sort of "gateway" software translating
things............... "TRULY HILARIOUS"?

I do. <grin>

Yes folks, if there were any doubt left in anyone's mind about what
a spanktard this "Professor" character is let them be laid to rest
right now. The above quoted paragraph is a complete joke. The
product of a total dimbulb trying anything and everything to
deflect the beating it's being dealt.

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