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Then make a couple CW contacts this weekend.
You'll get up from your rig afterwards and feel pretty good about being a ham again. SC |
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Slow Code wrote:
Then make a couple CW contacts this weekend. You'll get up from your rig afterwards and feel pretty good about being a ham again. SC Actually, just make a couple of contacts in any mode. Too many stations sit unused week after week, month after month... |
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I feel good that Slow Code doesn't have a ham license and is poisoning
the ham bands like he does the newsgroups. What's your call Slow Code? On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:23:00 GMT, matt vk3zmw wrote: Slow Code wrote: Then make a couple CW contacts this weekend. You'll get up from your rig afterwards and feel pretty good about being a ham again. SC Actually, just make a couple of contacts in any mode. Too many stations sit unused week after week, month after month... |
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![]() On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:49:49 -0500, john wrote: I feel good that Slow Code doesn't have a ham license and is poisoning the ham bands like he does the newsgroups. What's your call Slow Code? On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:23:00 GMT, matt vk3zmw wrote: Slow Code wrote: Then make a couple CW contacts this weekend. You'll get up from your rig afterwards and feel pretty good about being a ham again. SC Actually, just make a couple of contacts in any mode. Too many stations sit unused week after week, month after month... Top posting is a sign of inexperience. You are probably a newbie on the net. Go to news.groups and read the FAQ on Usenet etiquette first. After that, come back here and post properly and I will give you my call. SC |
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Slow Code wrote:
SC Actually, just make a couple of contacts in any mode. Too many stations sit unused week after week, month after month... Top posting is a sign of inexperience. You are probably a newbie on the net. Go to news.groups and read the FAQ on Usenet etiquette first. After that, come back here and post properly and I will give you my call. Actually top posting is a sign of *experience*. Us guys that were on the internet back when it was run by darpa always top posted. That was because we were running very slow lines, typically 110 to 300 baud, and it was desirable not to have to wait through the down load of a dozen copies of the same quoted material as we progressed through a thread. Bottom posting forced everyone on the newsgroup to fully download every article waisting tons of our very limited bandwidth and time. Top posting allowed you to get right to the meat of the article in the first few seconds of downloading... and it allowed you the option of continuing to footnotes if you really needed to. You newbies have dozens of ways of trying to impose your will on the group. Most of your so called rules of etiquette are simply you following the bottom posting convention that was set up as a default on internet explorer. Rn, trn, tin, and other premicrosloth news readers defaulted to top posting. You are so spoiled by high bandwidth and large amounts of memory that you think that a posting arrives at your machine in its full length instantly.. and for all practical purposes, it does. I can go either way. I do, however, get very tired of having to scroll through the same old quoted crap at the top of post after post... just to get to the bottom and find the highly informative, but typical, "me too" tacked onto the end. -Chuck |
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![]() On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:28:10 -0400, Chuck Harris wrote: Slow Code wrote: SC Actually, just make a couple of contacts in any mode. Too many stations sit unused week after week, month after month... Top posting is a sign of inexperience. You are probably a newbie on the net. Go to news.groups and read the FAQ on Usenet etiquette first. After that, come back here and post properly and I will give you my call. Actually top posting is a sign of *experience*. Us guys that were on the internet back when it was run by darpa always top posted. That was because we were running very slow lines, typically 110 to 300 baud, and it was desirable not to have to wait through the down load of a dozen copies of the same quoted Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! My bull**** detector just went off real loud. Here is an authoritative statement about ARPANET from one of Comer's books: "Initially, most of the leased data circuits in the ARPANET operated at 56 Kbps, a speed considered extremely fast in 1968 but slow by current standards." -- Douglas E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume One, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall (1995), page 57. 300 baud, my ass! You should have been on a time sharing machine connected directly to the 56K ARPANET, so don't bother to backpedal by claiming dialup speeds. (And of course Usenet didn't even begin until the 80's, shortly after ARPANET had ended.) Don't try to bull**** someone who has forgotten more about the subject than you have yet to learn. SC |
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Slow Code wrote:
On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:28:10 -0400, Chuck Harris wrote: Actually top posting is a sign of *experience*. Us guys that were on the internet back when it was run by darpa always top posted. That was because we were running very slow lines, typically 110 to 300 baud, and it was desirable not to have to wait through the down load of a dozen copies of the same quoted Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! My bull**** detector just went off real loud. Here is an authoritative statement about ARPANET from one of Comer's books: "Initially, most of the leased data circuits in the ARPANET operated at 56 Kbps, a speed considered extremely fast in 1968 but slow by current standards." -- Douglas E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume One, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall (1995), page 57. Yep, those were the *backbones* of ARPANET. We had *ONE* at the University of Maryland back in the 1970s. That leased line cost thousands of dollars per month, and was paid for by darpa. Compare that to the backbones of today which are measured in terrabits per second. These 56K backbones were connected to mainframe computers that acted as concentrators, and provided connections to other mainframes, and to thousands of users on timesharing systems. Yes, I have that right, *thousands* of users shared a single 56K backbone. Those users that were local to the concentrator (eg, in the computer room) were connected to the mainframe by various speed RS-232 lines, but those who were on remote dial up connections were connected by good old bell 103, 110 to 300 baud modems. 300 baud, my ass! You should have been on a time sharing machine connected directly to the 56K ARPANET, Yep, we were on timesharing machines, Univac 1106's, 1108's, and 1140's, and as I said, thousands of users shared a single 56K leased line into Darpanet. Do the math, if you can't, I'll help you: 56K/1000 = 56 bps. If there were *only* 1000 users vying for the net at the same time, they could each pump 56bps into the backbone. But there were many many more than that, and they weren't always needing the net all of the time. (hence the name concentrator) so don't bother to backpedal by I'm sorry, I don't backpedal for idiots. I don't brake for them either. claiming dialup speeds. (And of course Usenet didn't even begin until the 80's, shortly after ARPANET had ended.) Don't try to bull**** someone who has forgotten more about the subject than you have yet to learn. Riiiight! Just because you can look up darpa on a wiki somewhere, doesn't mean you can understand what you have read. -Chuck |
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![]() "Don Bowey" wrote in message ... On 10/7/06 10:42 AM, in article , " wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:28:25 +0000 (UTC), (Slow Code) wrote: stop you welching sc http://kb9rqz.blogspot.com/ I reported your abuse to this and other boards, to your service provider. Hopefully they will shut you down. you could just admit to making a mistake but then you can't admit to error and it would still be a lie since that **** of yours I have encountered is you writing on RRAP and other locations as inded you have that with your gay bashing means you need help you asked for it robeson http://www.marksspamblog.blogspot.com/ -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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john wrote in
: I feel good that Slow Code doesn't have a ham license and is poisoning the ham bands like he does the newsgroups. What's your call Slow Code? KB9RQZ, and I'm retarded. |
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