5 Jan
2002
5 Jan
'02
3:15 p.m.
On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
> > With so much OT stuff going on, this FAQ
might be interesting reading
> > for some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
sake
> > of curiosity, who has been on the list the
longest? I joined sometime
> > around June 5, 1997.
Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
subscribed thus:
From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
To: listproc(a)u.washington.edu
Reply-To: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
Status: OR
subscribe CLASSICCMP pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
(signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
It was a fairly busy list even then.
Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the
listserver? I found
out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
also active on that newsgroup at that time.
I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then
were mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*,
uk.telecom, rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the now-dead
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
5 Jan
5 Jan
3:54 p.m.
I loved alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt... only lurked there, but it was
sweet... are there any newer alternatives out there these days?
----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: 7/01/97 ClassicCmp FAQ - Part 1
sometime
now-dead
On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
reading
Tony Duell wrote:
> > > With so much OT stuff going on, this FAQ might be interesting
> > for
some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
sake
> > > of curiosity, who has been on the list the longest? I joined
> >
around June 5, 1997.
Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
subscribed thus:
From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
To: listproc(a)u.washington.edu
Reply-To: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
Status: OR
subscribe CLASSICCMP pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
(signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
It was a fairly busy list even then.
Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the
listserver? I found
out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
also active on that newsgroup at that time.
I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then
were mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*,
uk.telecom, rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
4:35 p.m.
Lanny Cox wrote:
I loved alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt... only lurked there, but it was
sweet... are there any newer alternatives out there these days?
comp.arch.hobbyist is all that is left if you want something other than
a PC clone!
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
6 Jan
6 Jan
10:44 a.m.
I joined late summer of 97. I think I ran across it in comp.sys.cpm. In going
back over my archives I had a giggle at some of the posts.
One of them was a rant about one particular spammer by Sellam that he
labelled "Son of Spamm" and his direct action solution.
Lawrence
......................................................................................
On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net
Tony Duell wrote:
> > With so much OT stuff going on, this
FAQ might be interesting reading for
> > some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
sake
> > of curiosity, who has been on the list
the longest? I joined sometime
> > around June 5, 1997.
Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
subscribed thus:
From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
To: listproc(a)u.washington.edu
Reply-To: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
Status: OR
subscribe CLASSICCMP pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
(signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
It was a fairly busy list even then.
Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the
listserver? I found
out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
also active on that newsgroup at that time.
I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then
were mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*,
uk.telecom, rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the now-dead
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York 
11:45 a.m.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
I joined late summer of 97. I think I ran across it
in comp.sys.cpm. In going
back over my archives I had a giggle at some of the posts.
One of them was a rant about one particular spammer by Sellam that he
labelled "Son of Spamm" and his direct action solution.
Ah yes. That must've been The Spaminator.
Earthlink is unlawfully infringing upon my trademark of that term, by the
way (I came up with it way before they did).
If anyone wants to fund the legal action I'll split the settlement with
you 50/50 ;)
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12:29 p.m.
Lawrence
......................................................................................
Trouble with your editor? :-)
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5:01 p.m.
Sorry about that. Forgot I was using that Stupid @#!@#%!@ MS Word
viewer.
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net
I joined late summer of 97. I think I ran across it
in comp.sys.cpm. In going
back over my archives I had a giggle at some of the posts.
One of them was a rant about one particular spammer by Sellam that he
labelled "Son of Spamm" and his direct action solution.
Lawrence
................................................................................
Thus sprang forth the Spaminator! The Spaminator is something I threw
together in about 10 minutes. What the Spaminator does is call the
offendor's number, wait for the voicemail to answer, dial a digit to cut
thru the outgoing message, then it starts singing simple tunes by playing
"spam" in different notes. I recorded a "spam" scale with my
own voice.
Basically I sang "spam" starting from A and going to G.
I created 10 different song files, with simple tunes such as "Mary Had a
Little Spam", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Spam", "Happy
Spamday", "We
Shall
Overcome (the spam)", "Jingle Spam", "Popeye the Sailor
Spam", and a
few
others. The Spaminator randomly selects three spam tunes to play for
each
call. It plays the tunes, then hangs up and calls right back up again.
The Spaminator is currently running, filling up the spammers voicemail box
with spam tunes. Hopefully, it will fill up the voicemail box and they
won't be able to receive any other messages. Also, it will bring them
much anguish as they constantly try to delete these messages that don't
stop coming.
On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net Tony Duell wrote:
> > With so much OT stuff going on, this
FAQ might be interesting reading
> > for some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
sake
> > of curiosity, who has been on the list
the longest? I joined sometime
> > around June 5, 1997.
Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
subscribed thus:
From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
To: listproc(a)u.washington.edu
Reply-To: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
Status: OR
subscribe CLASSICCMP pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
(signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
It was a fairly busy list even then.
Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the
listserver? I found
out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
also active on that newsgroup at that time.
I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then were
mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*, uk.telecom,
rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the now-dead
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
6:29 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
Thus sprang forth the Spaminator! The
Spaminator is something I threw
together in about 10 minutes. What the Spaminator does is call the
offendor's number, wait for the voicemail to answer, dial a digit to cut
thru the outgoing message, then it starts singing simple tunes by playing
"spam" in different notes. I recorded a "spam" scale with my
own voice.
Basically I sang "spam" starting from A and going to G.
I created 10 different song files, with simple tunes such as "Mary Had a
Little Spam", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Spam", "Happy
Spamday", "We
Shall
Overcome (the spam)", "Jingle Spam", "Popeye the Sailor
Spam", and a
few
others. The Spaminator randomly selects three spam tunes to play for
each
call. It plays the tunes, then hangs up and calls right back up again.
The Spaminator is currently running, filling up the spammers voicemail box
with spam tunes. Hopefully, it will fill up the voicemail box and they
won't be able to receive any other messages. Also, it will bring them
much anguish as they constantly try to delete these messages that don't
stop coming.
I can't remember if I followed up with a status report, but if I remember
correctly, I forgot The Spaminator was running and let it go for a good 6
hours (costing my company close to maybe $200 in phone charges) until I
checked in on it. When I did, the offender's mailbox was full. A couple
days later when I called the number up, it was disconnected.
Coincidence? You be the judge.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
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7 Jan
7 Jan
3:04 p.m.
ROTFL. I love it, even if it was costly.
Lawrence
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net
Thus sprang forth the Spaminator! The
Spaminator is something I threw
together in about 10 minutes. What the Spaminator does is call the
offendor's number, wait for the voicemail to answer, dial a digit to cut
thru the outgoing message, then it starts singing simple tunes by
playing "spam" in different notes. I recorded a "spam" scale
with my
own voice. Basically I sang "spam" starting from A and going to G.
I created 10 different song files, with simple tunes such as "Mary Had a
Little Spam", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Spam", "Happy
Spamday", "We Shall
Overcome (the spam)", "Jingle Spam", "Popeye the Sailor
Spam", and a few
others. The Spaminator randomly selects three spam tunes to play for
each call. It plays the tunes, then hangs up and calls right back up
again. The Spaminator is currently running, filling up the spammers
voicemail box with spam tunes. Hopefully, it will fill up the voicemail
box and they won't be able to receive any other messages. Also, it will
bring them much anguish as they constantly try to delete these messages
that don't stop coming.
I can't remember if I followed up with a status report, but if I remember
correctly, I forgot The Spaminator was running and let it go for a good 6
hours (costing my company close to maybe $200 in phone charges) until I
checked in on it. When I did, the offender's mailbox was full. A couple
days later when I called the number up, it was disconnected.
Coincidence? You be the judge.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
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8 Jan
8 Jan
6:38 a.m.
New subject: Spaminator
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
ROTFL. I love it, even if it was costly.
It didn't cost me anything, so I don't care ;)
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