Re: newsgroup regurgitation

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Jul 19, 1:25 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
> "Steven Hirsch" <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> ppKdnZ_OvrTthRzVnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@giganews.com">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