[Dshield] P.S. Re: Your father's internet

[Brenden Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at lists.dshield.org 
> [mailto:list-bounces at lists.dshield.org] On Behalf Of George Capehart
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 7:16 PM
> To: General DShield Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Dshield] P.S. Re: Your father's internet
> 
> Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:13:48 EDT, George Capehart said:
> > 
> >> *grin*  Nooooooooo!  No one would send spam over uucp!!!  ;)
> > 
> > "You're *WRONG*, tuna breath!" :)
> 
> <snip the good old days>
> 
> *wince* Doh!  My bad.  I misphrased my comment.  The image I 
> had in my head at the time I wrote it was a botherder trying 
> to blast the typical image-based spam messages over 1200 baud 
> modems . . .  :>  (Yes, I know it's possible to send uucp 
> traffic over other media.  Done it myself on an internal 
> network.  But my main association is with uucp over dialup, 
> and in the low-budget early days it was 300 baud or 1200 baud . . . ).
> 
> But thanks for the URL to the wikipedia entry.  I'd forgotten 
> all about them!  Can't believe it . . .  ;(

I can't believe you folks remember all that you did!  I remember a
300baud modem on a Morrow MD/2 I had way back when and that's about it.