From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The MGR window system and the Macintosh
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:00:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfbMh2eWsgR5-3ynim9VoLE5k6z-GhDybcOBUBH15zfPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a285a2f9-3b0-b8f7-3f6f-5c516aca4773@bl.org>
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On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 18:51, Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org> wrote:
>
> My current boss was a news admin at Dejanews and was there during
> their end days. I was the sysadmin for the datacenter (SMARTNAP) that
> DejaNews was co-lo'd in. Everyone wanted to peer with my news server
> since it fed directly into Dejanews' stuff which was a couple of racks
> down from my stuff.
>
> Google bought Deja and ruined it.
I knew the head sysadmin from Dejanews very well and I remember his story
about them being bought out by Google. Google flew in a bunch of engineers
with a bunch of disks, imaged the whole database over a weekend, and then
fired everyone. Good times.
-Henry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-16 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-04 19:45 [TUHS] " John Floren
2022-08-04 20:18 ` [TUHS] " Al Kossow
2022-08-04 20:29 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:16 ` Richard Salz
2022-08-04 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:42 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:58 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-05 4:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-16 22:51 ` Michael Parson
2022-09-16 23:00 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2022-08-04 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-04 22:07 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-05 0:37 ` Andrew Newman
2022-08-05 2:14 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-05 13:33 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 1:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-09 1:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-05 8:38 ` arnold
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