Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: SUSE Reviving Usenet Date: 3 Oct 2021 08:15:01 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <87r1d6114l.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <20211002180602.99cc5181a357c4dc16b89bd2@eircom.net> <20211002221735.23af09c8b2916c9154c97616@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aA2bDyK6CeM4wy+OXrgWAAmp7jk5JvbqPQ+s/CGJUk894woaBI Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nqm6u0H0iuLEMmdQE2g5LaXLzt4= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com sci.crypt:50332 alt.folklore.computers:219246 On Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:17:35 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: >> Indeed! Your son was there, I think you said. > > No you must be thinking of someone else. In the mid 1980s I was > trying to persuade my employer at the time to sign up for a slot to > connect via UKC - it would have been 15 minutes at dark o'clock if I'd > succeeded. O probably mixed up two peope, sorry. > I was an undergrad at Cambridge when UUCP was getting started so > missed out on all the fun then. The closest I got to global networking > in those days was watching a fellow student (who did some very > questionable work on copy protection as a profitable sideline) using the > EPSS[1] terminal to hop from system to system in various places using > credentials gleaned from somewhere[2] until he gleefully reached a login > screen claiming to be at the Pentagon and said he was stuck there > (thankfully!). > > [1] Prototype X25 network. Of course, we had EPSS too. Think the gateway was a PDP-11. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org