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  Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
(...) Me either. I use the web interface for lugnet, and q'r'us (is the only mailing list I'm on... I hope Matthew doesn't give my addy to third-parties :-) (...) Now that hotmail added the "Bulk-mail" feature, it's so much easier for me to avoid (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  atari 800 web server
 
I just wrote a really really basic web server for my atari 800. It listens on it's serial port (9600 baud) for a CD, and spits out the html page and drops DTR. The serial port is connected to an old CS-210 terminal server which is set to listen on (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  
 
  Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
(...) I try to avoid subscribing to mailing lists. That's what NNTP is for. :) (...) I mostly just add it to my procmail rules. I used to be very active in reporting these things, but it started to wear on me, y'know? (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
(...) yah, but won't it be a pain to resubscribe to all the mailing lists you read with a new email address every 30 days? I guess that could be automated as well... hmm.... Have you thought of filtering with ORBs or RBL? I havn't reached that point (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
(...) Sure. It takes them a little while to find your address somewhere and stick you on lists. I've toyed with setting up a scheme whereby the addresses I use publicly auto-expire after 30 days... (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)


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