Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

Roy M.Silvernail roy at sendai.scytale.com
Sun Aug 4 08:06:33 PDT 2002


On Saturday 03 August 2002 05:12 pm, Morlock Elloi wrote:

> UUCP will work as long as people can talk over telephone and there are
> modems available. The harder and more inconvenient it becomes to connect
> the higher average IQ of participants will be.
>
> There is hope.
>
> Just imagine the absence of short-attention span morons that find uucp too
> complicated. Ask around.

But if WorldCom disolves in bankruptcy, will UUNet still be the center of the 
bang-path universe?

More seriously, I think many of us old-timers long for the time when a 
certain level of wizardry was required to get on the net. (before Prodigy and 
the September that Never Ended)
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