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Re: Usenet Stories

From Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Usenet Stories
Date 2020-09-09 18:48 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20200909184816.aec913f569efc4e23bd2b2a7@eircom.net> (permalink)
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On 9 Sep 2020 17:20:52 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> On 2020-09-09, Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> wrote:
> 
> > On 2020-09-08, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 	I had a lot of fun configuring sendmail when I built a puntmail
> >> workalike (I called it drop-kick and it actually had a "drop" and a
> >> "kick"), raw sendmail.cf no macros.
> >
> > You're a better man than I. I consider sendmail.cf a Lovecraftian
> > nightmare.
> 
> I never went near sendmail.  Configuring X was bad enough.

	Compiling X the first time caused me some grief - the version of
Interactive I had lacked TCP/IP, streams and IPC. It also had an irritating
line length limitation in make that broke the Xlib Makefile (at least) in
X11R5. Pseudo TTY pairs was the only communication mechanism available, and
only one side of that was implemented in the X11 code. Getting an X on the
screen that moved with the mouse took some effort.

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Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-06 12:08 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-06 14:08 +0000
    Re: Usenet Stories Bud Spencer <bud@campo.verano.it> - 2020-09-06 18:02 +0300
      Re: Usenet Stories John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-06 18:27 +0000
        Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-06 23:01 +0100
    Re: Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-07 16:59 +0000
      Re: Usenet Stories Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com> - 2020-09-07 10:35 -0700
      Re: Usenet Stories JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-08 09:31 -0500
        Re: Usenet Stories Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-08 14:43 +0000
          Re: Usenet Stories Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-08 14:53 +0000
            Re: Usenet Stories Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-08 15:41 +0000
          Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-08 20:53 +0100
            Re: Usenet Stories scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-08 20:45 +0000
            Re: Usenet Stories Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-09 14:45 +0000
              Re: Usenet Stories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-09 17:20 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-09 18:48 +0100
                Re: Usenet Stories Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2020-09-09 19:02 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-09 21:06 +0100
                Re: Usenet Stories John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-09 21:33 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2020-09-09 21:50 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-10 15:49 +0000
              Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-09 18:03 +0100
  Re: Usenet Stories Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-09-06 16:22 +0000
    Re: Usenet Stories Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-06 19:01 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2020-09-06 19:44 +0300
  Re: Usenet Stories Owen Rees <orees@hotmail.com> - 2020-09-06 21:46 +0100
    Re: Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-07 06:27 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-09-09 12:22 -0500
    Re: Usenet Stories "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@127.0.0.1> - 2020-11-03 19:46 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories DNews <newsup@somewhere.cbr> - 2020-10-16 08:23 +0000
    Re: Usenet Stories Faux Dameron <fauxdameron@mailfence.com> - 2020-10-16 14:40 +0000
      Re: Usenet Stories f6k <f6k@huld.re> - 2020-10-16 23:02 +0200
    Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-11-06 10:13 +0100
      Re: Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-12-04 15:17 +0100
        Re: Usenet Stories f6k <f6k@huld.re> - 2020-12-09 18:58 +0100
          Re: Usenet Stories f6k <f6k@huld.re> - 2020-12-09 19:06 +0100
            Re: Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-12-11 15:56 +0100
  Re: Usenet Stories "A.T. Murray" <mentificium@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 12:30 -0700
    No Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-10-23 12:05 +0200
      Re: No Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-10-24 07:10 +0000
        Re: No Usenet Stories Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-10-24 08:47 +0100
          Re: No Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-10-24 18:00 +0000
          Re: No Usenet Stories JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-10-24 18:17 -0500
            Re: No Usenet Stories Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-10-25 08:03 +0000
              Re: No Usenet Stories JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 10:32 -0500

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