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    Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999 —Todd Lehman
   (...) Oh, I forgot to mention. Locating the server on triple DS-3's was getting too expensive. So we had so scale back a bit -- now it's on a 28.8 modem. ;-) --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999 —Richard Franks
   (...) Semaphore flags would have been a faster means of communication earlier this afternoon! :) Richard (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999 —Jasper Janssen
   (...) Don't you just love the semaphore system? It was ahead of it's time.. 20 years before the invention of the telegraph, they set up entire lines of semaphore stations. I've seen a minor one in France, part of the Paris-Lyon line. Tres cool. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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