mimus wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:17:28 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>
>> mimus wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:51:36 -0500, david hillstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:10:58 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:37:42 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:30:27 -0500, david hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:55:17 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:53:18 -0500, david hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:34:17 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>>>> <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Now that I got my Ubuntu repositories back, I cracked and
>>>>>>>>>>> installed a real news-client, Sylpheed.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Sweet.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Clean and snappy.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> who what?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Talk to Tim, he's the expert here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> who?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The one without the homonymomania.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, sure. I install, uninstall and dual-boot a couple of times and I
>>>>>> get labeled. Sheesh...
>>>>>
>>>>> No, no, you're the other one.
>>>>
>>>> he is? maybe tim and i are ACTUALLY the same person! ever thought of
>>>> that? huh?
>>>
>>> <calmly:>
>>>
>>> I always arbitrarily reduce by half the number of people I think I'm
>>> talking to on Usenet.
>>
>> Try dividing by zero.
>
> The bandwidth would be too heavy.
A bandwidth black hole?
--
Tim Weaver
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
- Gene Spafford, 1992