On Jul 19, 1:25=A0pm, "Bill Buckels"  wrote:
> "Steven Hirsch"  wrote in message
>
> news:ppKdnZ_OvrTthRzVnZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d{at}giganews.com...
>
> a2...{at}hotmail.com wrote:
> > Boggle! =A0Fido-net still exists?? =A0I just assumed it faded away alon=
g with
> > the rise of the the internet.
>
> AFAIK the international C echo is not on Fido anymore. I get my feed thro=
ugh
> a list serve. BTW Bob Stout just released a version of snippets for embed=
ded
> systems. My stuff from the early days is still on PDNCEE though. Lots of =
the
> old timers like Jerry Coffin are still around too.
>
> For a memory jog click on one or all of the following:
>
> http://www.clipshop.ca/sdn.gif
>
> http://www.clipshop.ca/polar.gif
>
> http://www.clipshop.ca/cobalts.gif
>
> http://www.clipshop.ca/starve.gif
>
> If we didn't have an academic account it was all we around here back then=
. I
> can't understand why anyone would kfetch and bemoan receiving a csa2 feed
> though. This is an extremely civilized bunch here and certainly as worthy=
 as
> anything fido ever had IMNSHO.
>
> Bill
>
> TNSTAAFL (There's no such think as a free lunch:)

Bill,
your quote there should be TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A
Free Lunch). Robert Heinlein use to use that in several of his science
fiction novels. In fact I think he coined that phrase, but I'm not
100% sure.

Dean
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