2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
3:51 a.m.
On Friday 01 September 2006 11:24 am, Dennis Boone wrote:
Actually, FidoNet used to do something similar. The
answering machine
would emit a particular character sequence (the "EMSI whack") as part
of its human-readable banner message. If the automated caller spoke
the EMSI protocol, it'd see that and they'd switch into EMSI instead
of using YooHoo or some other langauge. If the caller was a human,
they just wondered what the hell **EMSI_5467 meant. (Yes, I know
that's not quite right.)
Another ex-fidonetter? I was 1:270/615 and also 1:270/0 up until last October
or thereabouts.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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