[geeks] A little self-depreciation.

[Andrew Weiss]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:02:16PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=wargopl%40sun+SWM&hl=en&rnum=1&selm=1990Jun26.053116.21734%40sun.soe.clarkson.edu
> > I find it quite funny now.
>
> Me, about a month before I moved to texas:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mrbill%40ionet.net&hl=en&rnum=4&selm=4ura2m%24laf%40ionews.ionet.net

I found an old posting I made in 95 which makes me sound like a complete
computer retard (my DOS 3.11 days)... yet I had been doing VAX pascal
programming over a modem for four years in high school and found it quite
friendly... Where was I coming from?

choice excerpts:

Date: 1995-01-29 15:11:26 PST
I am new to news groups in general, and also to this particular news group
I have always been looking for groups like this one.  I was wondering
several
things:

1.  Is there an easier way to make a post than to use this awful program
vi? (I love vi now btw... and have ever since that UNIX in chemistry
course on the Xenix's...when I learned to use it properly.)
<...>
4. Oh also, how does one keep from getting the prompt Distribution: and
having
the computer tell you it will waste a lot of money by sending this message
everywhere?

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heh
Andrew

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