Y2K

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote: This comes up just as I was going to post my own (off-topic) rant re:HTML tags in mailing lists and newsgroups: I M H O: It is clue-impaired and rude to do so, unless inadvertently/occasionally. Many of Us subscribe to more than one maillist... I personally average 200-400 messages per *day*, and HTML goes to /dev/null unread; a damn shame if you had something to say to me that might have been of interest to either of us. Yes I have a PPP account, yes I have my own domain/webpages, and ISDN access.... nonetheless all my mail is routed to this account, a Unix shell, ASCII-based, VT-100, gimme that Ol' Time Religion account. I have resisted the urge to send the text w/tags back to the individuals privately.. just to give them an idea of what a *drag* it is. There's enough of that childishness going around, anyway. Also for those individual's consideration is the factoid that in some locations, persons pay *by the second* for their Inet access, and I imagine they're more pissed off than most. LAST BIT: ***Seventy-Two*** (72) columns!!!! Please!! I hate trying to read material that looks like a siesmo-log and is impossible to scan without getting tennis-match type eye strain, or something. You get the picture. Okay... rant off.... :) ObClassiccmp: This saturday I am going to rescue an entire Prime system, CPU, disks, printer(s) two Kennedy tape drives, and 50 (!) boxes of 1/2" tape. This system was central to a large division of the California State Gummint, and I am taking my portable industrial strength de-gausser with me.... a condition imposed by the rescuees. I can keep the OS and utils and such, but the HDs have been previously formatted and the backup tapes must be wiped or left there to be destroyed. WooHoo! Cheers John