Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Date: 15 Feb 2016 09:45:05 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <57b3f08f-8157-41c6-be28-003f33b9f49e@googlegroups.com> <87k2m8wc55.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 74CUQLipcUGha1U8OIaAtwSvbWZuLfEoJ6UZewKnegasg8YMTc Cancel-Lock: sha1:FVYEQuLQ++jYdO7I0ZKn946F1M4= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:159421 On 2016-02-15, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 3:50:33 PM UTC-5, Walter Bushell wrote: > >> Mike Spencer wrote: >> > We had a (very rural) 2-party line until the late 80s. When the >> > nighbor's son hot puberty. he would call his girlfriend and they would >> > stay on the line, just *breathing* at each other. If they ever >> > *said* anything, I don't think I wanted to know. But talk about >> > boring... >> >> Not to the parties involved. > > We had a neighbor who was a terrible gossip. She would babble on and > on about the most trivial stuff from other people's lives. She just > lived to hear gossip. She got a job delivering community notices just > to have an excuse to peek in windows and observe comings and goings. > > She also got a lot of it wrong. RumourNet (tm) is high bandwidth but low reliability. -- I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.