Re: [Security-Discuss] Xine accessing /etc/passwd ????

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Tuxiq wrote:
> 
>> I started out long ago in FIDONET well before the internet existed.
> 
> FidoNet started in 1984. It filled a gap especially during the time that
> the internet wasn't publicly available or just too expensive. InterNet is 
> older. The first time TCP/IP got integrated to a kernel was in 1982 (?) 
> but TCP/IP had existed for quite a few years before.
> 
>> And in my time, etiquette dictated reserving such comments for the
>> bottom of the message,
> 
> I don't particularly recall this, even though I've been on FidoNet for
> more than 5 years. It must be dependent on which mailing-lists (aka
> "echomail" or "conferences") you were on: many of them had their own
> pretty elaborate lists of rules.

As much as we'd all like to fondly remember the days of fidonet, let's
not turn this mailing list into the typical fido-flame-fest I so fondly
recall of my fidonet days.

I think the thread has gone on long enough now.


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