From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Signal/noise (Was: OSI stack (Was: Posters))
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 19:10:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d50eb774-29a6-b431-a5fa-0fd7f7b82b1b@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPWNY8Wx87Qx+gP+bm-YskuGbvu1pXoh2=rWafA50u8zWxSY-w@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/3/2019 6:33 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
>
> With apologies for the outburst:
>
> When I first subscribed to tuhs several years ago (even though I don't
> really belong in here; I'm younger than even Linux, much less any of
> the Unixen), I *very much* enjoyed reading the various stories about
> UUCP, about Sun, about X11, VMS, ARPAnet – often first-hand tales, no
> less.
>
> So I don't know what counts as 'signal' on this list versus 'noise',
> but I'd much rather read a million posts about OSI, CLNP and other
> networks – a history lesson and information that's been getting scarce
> in general – than kill/mute yet another thread full of generic "boo M$
> Windoze" drivel that I can already find on Reddit.
>
>
I concur. However, discussions of how many necks Jimmy Page's guitar had
were pretty much way off topic. I mean, really, THREE? Led Zeppelin was
slightly before my time (I'm 53). But who doesn't know it was only two?
;)
art k.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-03 15:02 [TUHS] OSI stack (Was: Posters) Noel Chiappa
2019-02-03 16:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-02-03 23:33 ` [TUHS] Signal/noise (Was: OSI stack (Was: Posters)) Mantas Mikulėnas
2019-02-04 0:10 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2019-02-04 0:54 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-02-04 2:23 ` [TUHS] Signal/noise Warren Toomey
2019-02-04 2:37 ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-04 2:57 ` Bakul Shah
2019-02-04 3:26 ` Warner Losh
2019-02-04 3:26 ` Dan Cross
2019-02-04 4:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-02-04 6:20 ` Jon Steinhart
[not found] ` <CANCZdfq5PM9jFEi9=geC+CTnveXs5CprN7b+ku+s+FYzw1yQBw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-02-06 17:16 ` [TUHS] OSI stack (Was: Posters) Warner Losh
2019-02-06 17:23 ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-06 23:37 ` George Michaelson
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